OFFICIAL  PARTY 

State  Publicity  Pamphlet 


Published  by  the 


State  of  South  Dakota 


Principles  and  Arguments  of  Candidates  in 
Party  Primaries  to  be  held  on  the 
Fourth  Tuesday  in 
March,  1920 


State  Publishing  Company 
Pierre,  South  Dakota 


DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


JAMES  O.  MONROE 


DEAIOCRATIC  INDIVIDUAL  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATE  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

“All  Men  are  Created  Equal”  in  natural  opportunity.  Governments  derive  their 
just  power  from  the  consent  of  the  governed.  The  Monroe  Doctrine,  which  opposes^ 
alliance  with  any  foreign  power  who  contemplates  land  exploitations.  Federal  taxa- ' 
tion  to  prevent  the  monopoly  of  coal,  oil,  ore  and  transportation  and  reduce  the  high 
ccst  of  living.  An  Old  Age  Pension  based  upon  justice,  not  charity. 


PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 


Prevent  coal,  oil  and  transportation  monopoly  by  taxation. 


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JAMES  O.  MONROE,  of  Maywood,  111. 

INDIVIDUAL  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
DEMOCRATIC  NOMINATION  FOR  PRESIDENT  OF 
THE  UNITED  STATES 
ARGUMENT 

PRINCIPLE  IN  GOVERNMENT 

In  the  Struggle  between  Industry  and  Privilege,  Taxation  is  the  principle  issue. 

To  tax  industry,  can  destroy  it. 

To  tax  privilege,  equalizes  opportunity, 

. (Prevents  any  from  having  a Governmental  Advantage.) 

While  a tax  on  Coal,  Oil,  Ore  or  Railroads  must  be  borne  by  these  industries, 
or  reduce  wages,  or  shifted  to  the  consumers  of  these  necessities  and  thus  raise  the 
price,  which  lessens  the  purchasing  power,  which  has  the  effect  of  reducing  wages. 

A tax  on  Coal,  Oil  and  Ore  Lands  and  on  Railroad  Right  of  Ways  has  the  op- 
posite effect,  by  preventing  them  from  being  held  out  of  use;  in  fact,  taxes  them 

into  use,  the  effect  of  which  is  to  cheapen  the  price,  and  reduce  the  high  cost  of 
living,  which  increases  the  purchasing  power,  the  effect  of  which  is  to  raise  wages. 

A tax  on  privilege  cannot  be  'shifted  to  the  consumers.  More  than  this,  to  tax 

privilege  encourages  competition,  which  opens  opportunity  for  capital  and  labor; 
greater  still,  it  gives  vitality  to  that  self-evident  truth  that  “All  Men  Are  Created 
Equal,”  while  land  exploitation  creates  war. 

Equal  opportunity  brings  contentment  and  contentment  is  the  twin  sister  to 
peace. 


JAME 


JAMES  O.  MONROE. 


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DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


DEMOCRATIC  CANDIDATES  PROPOSED  BY 
INDIVIDUAL  PETITION 


JAMES  0.  MONROE,  Maywood,  111.  - - _ _ _ 

TOM  TAUBMAN,  Plankinton,  S.  D.  - - _ _ _ 

L.  E.  HOCKENSMITH,  Corsica,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

F . O.  FIELD,  Alexandria,  S.  D.  - --  --  -- 

OLAF  K.  FJETLAND,  Lemmon,  S.  D.  - 
H.  L.  WILLRODT,  Chamberlain,  S.  D.  - - - - 
JOE  J.  MARSO,  Harrold,  S.  D.  - --  --  -- 

EDGAR  WATWOOD,  Milesville,  S D - - - - 
ROY  SKUTT,  Marcus,  S.  D.  - - - 1 - - - - 

CHARLES  W.  ROBERTSON,  Midland,  S.  D.  - - - 

STANLEY  S.  SMITH,  Wessington  Springs,  S.  D. 


President  of  the  United  States 
United  States  Senator, 

State  Senator,  9th  Dist. 

State  Senator,  11th  Dist. 

State  Senator,  14th  Dist. 

State  Senator,  15th  Dist. 

State  Senator,  23rd  Dist. 

State  Senator,  2 4th  Di«t. 

State  Senator,  41'st  Dist. 
Representative,  54th  Dist. 
Representative,  58th  Dist. 


Tion  names  above  given  may  not  appear  upon  the  Primary 

EJailot.  ihey  will  not  unless  there  is  opposition  within  the  party.  Where  there  is 
no  opposition  within  the  party,  the  candidate  automatically  becomes  the  nominee 
or  the  party  by  operation  of  the  present  Primary  Law. 


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DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


JAMES  W.  GERARD,  of  NEW  YORK 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  DEMOCRATIC  PROTESTING 
PROPOSAL  FOR  NOMINATION  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


Was  born  at  Geneseo,  New  York,  August  25,  1867,  of  Scotch  parentage,  his 
grandfather  of  the  same  name  having  come  from  Scotland  to  America. 

He  is  a graduate  of  Columbia  College  and  the  Columbia  School  of  Political 
Science,  with  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

He  was  married  in  19  01,  his  wife  being  a daughter  of  the  late  Marcus  Daly  of 
Montana. 

He  practices  law  in  New  York  City  with  the  firm  of  Scott-Gerard  & Bowers, 
a firm  established  by  his  grandfather  in  1812. 

Judge  Gerard  was  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  until  he  resigned  iii  1907 
to  become  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of  New  York  to  which  he  was 
elected.  -x 

In  1910  President  Taft  appointed  him  member  of  the  United  States  Commis- 
sion to  attend  Mexican  Centennial  Celebrations. 

In  1913  President  Wilson  appointed  him  Ambassador  to  Germany,  at  which 
post  he  served  during  the  world  war,  and  until  America  entered  the  war  in  1917. 

He  is  a member  of  St.  Thomas’  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  New  York,  and 
identified  with  the  nation’s  social,  industrial,  economic  and  philanthropic  move- 
ments. 


DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


JOHN  A.  BOWLER,  of  Sioux  Falls,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PROTESTING  PARTY  PROPOSAL  FOR 
DEMOCRATIC  NOMINATION  FOR 
NATIONAL  COMMITTEEMAN 


John  A.  Bowler,  Democrat  of  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  was  born  at  North 
Adams,  Massachusetts,  in  1861.  Raised  on  a farm  in  Wisconsin,  came  to  the  Ter- 
iritory  of  Dakota  in  1882,  engaged  in  the  Farm  Implement  business  in  Groton.  Was 
Chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee  from  1894  to  1900,  Warden  of 
the  South  Dakota  State  Penitentiary  from  May,  1899,  to  May,  1901.  Has  since  been 
engaged  in  the  Surety  Bond  business. 


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J.  E.  BIRD,  of  Watertown,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PROTESl'ING  PARTY  PROPOSAL  FOR 
DEMOCRATIC  NOMINATION  FOR 
PARTY  STATE  CHAIRMAN 


Ha's  lived  in  Watertown,  S.  D.,  since  1901  and  actively  engaged  in  the  Real 
Instate  and  Insurance  business  since  that  date,  and  has  been  identified  with  the  bet- 
terment of  farm  conditions  and  in  the  upbuilding  of  his  home  city. 

He  served  in  Company  M.  5 2nd  Iowa  Inft.,  during  the  Spanish-American  War 
and  was  an  active  member  of  the  Exemption  Board  of  Codington  County,  S,  D., 
during  its  existence.  ■ He  has  been  a life  long  Democrat  and  a believer  in  Equal 
Franchise  and  an  early  worker  for  that  cause.  He  was  twice  nominated  by  the 
Democratic  Party  for  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State  and  was  the  party’s  candidate 
for  Governor  at  the  last  election  and  his  knowledge  of  party  affairs  in  the  state 
acquired  during  past  campaigns,  thoroughly  fit  him  for  the  office  of  State  Chair- 
man, and  his  years  of  experience  in  general  business  will  be  of  great  help  to  the 
Democratic  Party  of  South  Dakota  in  the  coming  campaign,  if  by  your  vote  for  him, 
he  is  permitted  to  use  them  for  the  parties’  welfare. 


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DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


DEMOCRATIC  CANDIDATES  PROPOSED  BY 
PROTESTING  PARTY  PROPOSAL 


JAMES  W.  GERARD,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
U.  S.  G.  CHERRY,  Sioux  Palls,  S.  D.  - 
JOHN  A.  BOWLER,  Sioux  Palls,  S.  D. 
J.  E.  BIRD,  Watertown,  S.  D.  - - - 


President  of  the  United  States 
United  States  Senator 
National  Committeeman 
Chairman  State  Central  Committee 


n n names  above  given  may  not  appear  upon  the  Primary 

Ballot,  they  will  not  unless  there  is  opposition  within  the  party.  Where  there  is 
oPPositiom  within  the  party,  the  candidate  automatically  becomes  the  nominee 
of  the  party  by  operation  of  the  present  Primary  Law. 


DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


DEMOCRATIC  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATES 


MRS.  R.  H.  LEWIS,  Mitchell,  S.  D.  - - 

TOM  H.  JOHNSTON,  Marcus,  S.  D.  - - 

THOMAS  J.  FRICK,  Yankton,  S.  D.  - - 

LEWIS  W.  GRILL,  Elk  Point,  S.  D.  - - 

JAMES  MEE,  Centerville,  S.  D.  - - - - 

J.  T.  HEFFRON,  Deadwood,  S.  D.  - - - 

RALPH  E.  JOHNSON,  Sioux  Falls,  S.  D.  - 
LEWIS  W.  BICKNELL,  Webster,  S.  D.  - 
HARRY  L.  GANDY,  Rapid  City,  S.  D.  - - 

W.  W.  HOWES,  Wolsey,  S.  D.  - - - - 

JORGE'N  J.  BOE,  Presho,  S.  D.  - - - - 

A.  W.  CLOSSEN,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - - 

FRANK  E.  DUBA,  Belle  Fourche,  S.  D.  - 
PETER  WARD,  Hot  Springs,  S.  D.  - - - 

A.  W.  PHELPS,  Faulkton,  S.  D.  - - - 

JAMES  RUTHERFORD,  Clark,  S.  D.  - - 

C.  B.  LINSTAD,  Eagle  Butte,  S.  D.  - - - 

MRS.  ANNA  STRUBBLE,  Centerville,  S.  D. 
JAMES  R.  WILSON,  Scotland,  S.  D.  - - 

L.  E.  HOCKENSMITH,  Corsica,  S.  D.  - - 

MAY  P.  GRIST,  Miller,  S.  D.  - - - - 

GEORGE  M.  ENGLER,  Ipswich,  S.  D.  - - 

GEORGE  FORD,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - - 

ORVILLE  RINEHART,  Rapid  City,  S.  D.  - 
MRS.  ENOLA  SNODGRASS,  Interior,  S.  D. 
JOHN  P.  BIEHN,  Gregory,  S.  D.  - - - 

CLARENCE  BURNS,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - 

J.  P.  ALEXANDER,  Brookings,  S.  D.  - 
OTTO  ALTFILLISCH,  De  Smet,  S.  D.  - - 

WILL  N.  THOMPSON,  Lemmon,  S.  D.  - - 

F.  W.  BILGER,  Ardmore,  S.  D.  - - - - 

MRS.  J.  T.  COGAN,  Pierre,  S.  D.  - - - 

J.  V.  LANGDON,  Mission  Hill,  S.  D.  - - 


Presidential  Elector 
Presidential  Elector 
Presidential  Elector 
Presidential  Elector 
National  Committeeman 
State  Chairman 
Congressman,  1st  District 
Congressman,  2nd  District 
Congressman,  3rd  District 
Governor 

Secretary  of  State 
State  Auditor 
State  Treasurer 
Attorney  General 

Commissioner  of  School  and  Public 
Lands 

Ry.  Commissioner,  2nd  District 
Ry.  Commissioner,  3rd  District 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Alternate  Delegate  National  Convention 
Alternate  Delegate  National  Convention 
Alternate  Delegate  National  Convention 
Alternate  Delegate  National  Convention 
Alternate  Delegate  National  Convention 
Alternate  Delegate  National  Convention 
Alternate  Delegate  National  Convention 


NOTE:  Many  of  the  names  above  given  will  not  appear  upon  the  Primary 
Ballot,  due  to  the  fact  that  no  opposition  exists  within  the  party,  but  those  candi- 
dates automatically  become  nominees  of  the  Party  by  operation  of  the  present 
Primary  Law. 

Where  vacancies  occur  in  the  party  proposal  for  nomination,  or  where  vacancy 
may  occur  up  to  thirty  days  before  the  Primary,  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Pro- 
posal meeting  may  appoint  someone  to  fill  the  vacancy. 


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PROTESTING  PROPOSALMEN  PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND 

PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 


PLATFORM 

World  Peace  with  a world  vision  and  a reconstruction  policy  calculated  to  pre- 
serve America  and  American  commerce  as  against  the  world;  to  establish  for  labor 
Its  share  in  the  fruits  of  industry;  to  protect  the  farmer  against  the  middleman  and 
to  restore  equal  rights  to  all  loyal  citizens. 


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PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

Prompt  ratification  of  Peace  Treaty  and  League  of  Nations  Covenant  with  im- 
mediate establishment  of  the  League  at  Geneva;  immediate  reduction  of  war  taxes; 
prompt  restoration  of  normal  labor  and  trade  conditions  by  proper  legislation. 

NATIONAL  SUMMARY  OP  PRINCIPLES 
Make  and  keep  the  World  Safe  for  Democracy. 

STATE  SUMMARY  OF  PRINCIPLES 

True  Democracy. 


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PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE  OF  THE 
DEMOCRATIC  REPRESENTATIVE  STATE  PROPOSAL 
COMMITTEE 

PLANK  1 

The  Democratic  Party  of  the  State  of  South  Dakota,  in  State  Proposal  Conven- 
non  assembled,  reaffirms  its  allegiance  to  the  doctrines  and  principles  of  the  Na- 
tional Democratic  Party, 

We  imhesitatingly  endorse  the  administration  of  our  great  President,  Woodrow 
years  the  National  Democratic  Party  was  in  control  of  the 
legislative  and  executive  branches  of  the  Government,  down  to  March  1st,  this  year, 
the  promises  made  in  its  platforms  of  1912  and  1916  have  been  redeemed;  and 

President,  a constructive  program  of  needed  and 
beneficial  legislation  has  been  carried  through,  unparalleled  in  the  history  of  this  or 
any  other  nation,  in  any  like  period  of  time.  To  attempt  to  enumerate  all  that 
has  been  done  m the  way  of  constructive  and  remedial  policies  and  legislation  in 
the  period  mentioned,  would  unduly  extend  this  platform  and  declaration  of  prin- 
mples.  But  among  those  to  which  we  particularly  call  attention  are;  The  enact- 
income  tax  law;  the  effect  of  which  has  been,  and  is,  to  compel  both 
great  and  moderate  wealth  to  contribute,  each,  their  proper  share  toward  the  sup- 
® government;  for  the  election  of  United  States  Senators  by  direct  vote; 
compelling  publicity  of  campaign  expenditures;  creating  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank 
System;  the  estab  ishment  of  the  eight  hour  day  as  the  standard  for  labor;  the 
enactment  of  legislation  making  it  compulsory  upon  the  railroads  to  employ  safety 
enactment  of  the  National  Workmen’s  Compensation  Law;  the 
Of  Rural  Credits  Legislation;  the  enactment  of  legislation  aiding  and 

roads;  providing  for  agricultural 
V/  -D  ^ 3ust  legislation  for  the  benefit  of  the  Union  of  Labor;  the  crea- 
1 Tariff  Commission;  the  enactment  of  legislation  creating  the 

tw/.L  ^nt  by  no  means  the  least  important  of 

accomplishments,  has  been,  and  is,  the  establishment  in  the  ter- 
^ ^ Merchant  Marine  in  an  almost  incredibly  short  period  of 

m^gnitud^e^^^^^^^  efficiency,  and  in  a few  months  to  be  unsurpassed  in 

Only,  an  enumeratioiT^the  great  achievements  of  the  Dem- 
Hnn  ^nf  poriod,  throughout  which,  under  the  administra- 

tiiA  has  been  entrusted  by  the  people  of  this  country,  with 

the  responsibilities  of  the  executive  and  legislative  branches  of  the  government. 

the  seventeen  months  following  the  declaration  of  war  on  April  6th, 
Imperial  German  Government,  this  nation  while  its  government 
^ Democratic  President  and  Congress,  was  engaged  in  the  stupen- 
wWft  to  preserve  the  Representative  form  of  Government  here  and  else- 

c^ilizatinn  liberties  of  our  own  and  other  peoples,  and  to  save 

dill  p fT  ^1^^  people,  irrespective  of  party  lines  or  affiliations,  is 

Rnf  F^H  f for  the  glorious  achievements  of  bhis  nation  in  that  world  struggle, 
nf  should  not  be  obscured,  that  the  great  policies  and  program 

viere  conceived,  promulgated,  enacted  and  carried  forward  under 
whiPh^’^Pon^i^  control  of  the  same  political  party  and  the  same  administration 
Te^red  to  And  f execution,  the  policies  and  programs  above  re- 

th^  ip-m-'rip.  ./fh  mankind,  that  almost  instantly  upon 

JhtovF  ^ Armistice,  a spirit  of  envy,  a desire  to  discredit,  a purpose  to 

thwart,  and  a program  of  villification  and  abuse  took  possession  of  and  has  char- 

if  indeed  not  a majority  of  the  representatives  of  the 
Republican  Party  in  both  branches  of  the  Congress. 

assembling  of  the  Sixty-Sixth  Congress  on  May  19th,  the  control  of 
^ branch  of  the  Government  passed  to  the  Republican  Party.  At  that 

announced  an  ambitious  program  of  reconstructive  legislation.  Six 
Passed  and  not  one  item  of  this  program  has  been  enacted.  Instead 
t e Republican  Party  has  followed  a course  of  opposition,  negation  and  obstruction. 


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The  great  Treaty  of  Peace,  embodying  the  beneficient  plan  and  principles  of  a 
League  of  Nation's,  was  submitted  by  the  President  to  the  Senate  in  July 
nresent  year,  and  for  more  than  four  months,  numerous  leaders  of  the  Republican 
PartT  in  that  body,  have  treated  this  greatest  public  document  ever  produced,  in 
the  spirit  above  outlined.  Amendments  have  been  proposed,  of  such  character  and 
purpose  as  to  amaze  the  people  of  this  land  and  foreip  nations,  and  although  the 
great  Allies  who  were  associated  with  us.  Great  Britain,  France,  Italy,  and  Japan, 
composing  four  of  the  five  proposed  members  of  the  Council,  provided  for  in  the 
League  Pact,  have  ratified  and  approved  the  Treaty,  this  nation  alone  by  the  action 
of  the  Senate,  stands  aloof,  and  in  the  form  of  so-called  “reservations”  which  are 
In  substance  and  in  effect,  amendments,  and  which  are  designed  to  nullify  the 
Treaty,  refuses  to  accept  its  share  or  part  in  this  new  world  order,  and  in  the  re- 
establishment of  Civilization  upon  a peaceful  and  solid  foundation.  The  unselfish 
spirit  that  actuated  our  armed  forces  in  the  field,  and  typified  them  as  Crusaders; 
the  high  minded  purpose  that  permeated  the  whole  body  of  our  people  at  home; 
and  the  conceded  moral  leadership  of  the  world  which  was  ours,  during  the  war, 
have  been  by  the  Senate  during  the  four  months  of  effort  to  discredit  the  President 
and  his  party,  almost  dispelled  in  the  eyes  of  the  civilized  and  enlightened  nation's 
of  the  earth.  We  are  confident  that  a large  minority,  if  indeed  not  a majority  of 
the  republicans  of  this  land,  will  ultimately  repudiate  this  course  by  the  republican 
majority  in  the  Senate.  , , . , ^ ^ 

We  therefore  call  upon  all  men  and  women  who  stand  for  the  higher  and  bet- 
ter things  in  our  national  and  international  life,  who  seek  to  establish  peace,  so 
far  as  is  humanly  possible,  for  all  time,  who  favor  the  settlement  of  controversies 
by  processes  of  reason  and  justice,  rather  than  by  intimidation  or  brute  force,  who 
believe  in  the  equality,  not  only  of  individuals,  but  of  nations,  in  their  exercises  of 
sovereignty, — we  call  upon  all  high-minded  and  forward  looking  men  and  women, 
irrespective  of  present  of  former  political  affiliations,  to  join  with  us  in  the  great 
program  of  re-adju'stment  and  re-construction  and  the  establishment  of  this  new 
world  order.  And  we  enunciate  as  the  paramount  national  issue  in  the  national 
campaign  of  1920,  to  be,  the  establishment  in  the  affairs  and  relations  of  individuals, 
and  of  nations  in  their  relations  and  dealings  with  each  other,  of  the  principles 
of  justice  and  reason,  and  of  a spirit  of  fairness  and  co-operation,  rather  than 
antagonism,  hatred,  intimidation  or  force.  And  we  hold  that  these  principle’s  should 
be,  and  must  be  applied  in  our  industrial,  commercial,  and  political  life.  And  for 
their  establishment  we  favor  such  processes  of  negotiation,  arbitration  or  adjudica- 
tion, and  the  creation  of  such  courts  and  tribunals,  as  experience  and  the  purposes 
to  be  achieved,  require. 

In  furtherance  of  this  end  we  demand  the  prompt  ratification  by  the  United 
States  Senate  of  the  Treaty  of  Versailles  including  the  Covenant  of  the  League  of 
Nations,  without  amendment  or  reservation. 


PLANK  2 

In  our  state  affairs  we  characterize  the  present  Republican  administration  as 
weak,  vacillating  and  time  serving.  It  has  been  singularly  devoid  of  courage  and 
leadership.  Upon  none  of  the  matters  involved  in  state  affairs,  as  to  which  there 
has  been  any  sharp  division  of  opinion  or  conviction,  has  the  present  state  ad- 
ministration been  either  for  or  against. 

We  heartily  commend  the  Secretly  of  the  Interior  and  the  Commissioner  of 
Indian  Affairs  for  establishing  a more  liberal  policy  in  granting  full  citizenship  and 
property  rights  to  the  Sioux  Indians  of  South  Dakota.  We  commend  Senator  Ed.  S. 
Johnson  and  Congressman  Gandy  for  their  efforts  to  secure  such  legislation  a's  will 
provide  for  the  advancement  of  the  claim  of  the  Indians  under  the  Black  Hills 
Treaty,  and  we  further  approve  of  legislation  which  has  been  enacted,  under  which 
the  tribal  rolls  may  be  closed  and  tribal  property  distributed. 

We  favor  suitable  amendments  to  the  present  Primary  Law  to  make  it  more 
workable  and  less  expensive. 

We  propose  active  co-operation  with  the  United  States  Government  to  reduce 
the  cost  of  living  and  favor  such  legislation  as  will  enable  the  State  Government 
tb  suppress  the  taking  of  exorbitant  and  unfair  profits  in  the  distribution  of  neces- 
saries of  life. 


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DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


We  condemn  the  present  State  administration  for  its  faiiure  to  make  timelv  nrr 
vision  for  a suitable  bonus  for  returned  soldiers,  sai  ors,  marines  and  nu^s  an 
pledge  our  best  efforts  to  accomplish  this.  marines  ana  nurses  an 

ent  a “on-Political  State  Civil  Service  to  supplant  the  pres 

by  th^Ieg  Sure  and°*tifa°t  ^ f t°  officers  and  commissions  create.l' 

oy  tne  legislature,  and  that  preference  be  given  to  returned  soldiers  sailors 
marines  and  nurses  when  otherwise  qualified.  soiaiers,  sailors 

fov  present  State  Hail  Insurance  Law  be  amended  to  bet 

er  ®®^ve  the  needs  of  the  diversified  agricultural  interests  of  the  State 

To  contribute  to  the  building  material  of  the  future,  we  declare  and  nledei’ 
r re^esentatives,  in  favor  of  appropriate  laws  providing  for  the  re-forestratioil 
National  Forest  and  State  owned  timber  land's,  and  we  favor  exemption  fron 

!he?er  ““ber,  hereafter  'pS  g^o^n, 

hio-n  changed  conditions  of  travel,  we  favor  extensions  of  our  nresenf 

hifhwflL^fb?  system,  and  we  favor  more  construction  and  improvements^of  the 

e€--h“-  "4^Vitd^-lt-fri?^e-£ut  needlf  tM 

, tiou.  we  Xn1tUu«onri^^rnvenfC"‘'“^"‘^ 

our  sTate'G;°verZie\T^^We^”;edge  ourseirer’io^hTt'*‘=°”Ti^“'  administation  of 

^'o^rm^::r-  ^ rud"iUs=‘frrcts°'of‘^^^^^^  ILt 

PLANK  3 

tions^a°„'’dTnSiiafs  t^rciiTuf  d^lsi^y^aV^I.’'^”^™™"*''® 

aliens’^”’’  immigration  laws  to  protect  American  labor  and  bar  undesirable 

disroyluy  fn  anr^fr  as  w°ho  preached  orp?ac”fced 

PLANK  4 

:.s£n5Hrr  “ r,  ,i; 

...  «p..tvsr„;  «■>••  ■” 

Welfare  Work  ^ with^nartiV^fin^r  National,  for  the  furtherance  of  Child 

and  we  fawor  the  creatfnn  nf  « to  the  care  of  mothers  and  infant  children. 

Cabinet.  creation  of  a department  of  Child  Welfare  with  a Secretary  in  the 

delinruUTnd^°eM"m[nL"Srem‘""  institntions  devoted  to  the  care  of 


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I 


DEMOCRATIC  PARTY 


We  welcome  the  women  of  the  state  to  the  enjoyment  of  full  citizenship  and 
we  urge  them  to  the  most  active  participation  in  political  matters  to  the  end  that 
they  may  secure  for  the  women  of  our  state  the  full  enjoyment  of  their  rights. 

We  believe  that  a law  should  be  enacted  providing  for  one  or  more  women 
members  of  the  Board  of  Regent's,  and  one  woman  member  of  the  Board  of  Charities 
and  Corrections. 

PLANK  5. 

We  heartily  commend  United  States  Senator  Ed.  S.  Johnson  and  Congressman 
Harry  Gandy  for  support  of  progressive  and  patriotic  legislation,  and  for  loyalty  to 
the  administration  of  President  Wilson. 

PLANK  6 

We  look  with  disfavor  on  any  movement  to  discredit,  modity  or  abrogate  our 
prohibition  laws.  State  and  National. 


PLANK  7 

We  are  not  unmindful  of  the  great  issues  now  being  brought  before  our  country 
due  to  the  disturbed  conditions  naturally  arising  from  the  world  war,  and  as  a re- 
sult of  such  situation,  labor  and  capital  have  met  in  a mighty  contest.  We  urge 
that  legislation  be  enacted  that  will  make  it  possible  for  all  disputes  to  be  settled 
equitably,  so  that  the  rights  of  labor,  capital  and  the  public,  may  not  be  harmed  in 
such  adjustment.  We  believe  in  the  principle  of  arbitration  and  that  a tribunal  be 
established  in  which  labor  and  capital  and  the  public  may  have  equal  representa- 
tion. Upon  this  platform  and  upon  these  principles  we  confidently  appeal  to  the 
people  of  this  great  state. 


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democratic  party 


PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 


STATE 

benefit  of  all  of  the  People, ^Ld^nofofl^cnJ^^^^^  government  for  the 

created  to  reward  political  lieutenants  and  *tho’  ot  useless  commissions 

in  the  state,  with  Preference  gi^n  ‘returned  lofdiers““  “ ^i-partisan  civil  service 
Summary— A business  administration  for  South  Dakota. 


national 

de™nalMa!rs“'‘'“®''‘  ^‘^"^ue  of  Nations  and  the  triumph 

Summary-For  lasting  peace  under  the  Leagne  of  Nations. 


Of  justice 


NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


NONPARTISAN  CANDIDATES  PROPOSED  BY 
INDIVIDUAL  PETITION 


LEWIS  WEBER,  Farmer,  S.  D.  ------  - 

V.  S.  FILBERT,  Miller,  S.  D.  -------  - 

WILLIAM  H.  SPENCER,  Fairbank,  S.  D.  - - - - 

GEORGE  F.  BRITTON,  Hilland,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

WILL  EVENSON,  Toronto,  S.  D.  - - - - - - - 

CASSINS  POND,  Ipswich,  S.  D.  ------  - 

J.  F.  WESSEL,  Mound  City,  S.  D.  -----  - 

CHAS.  E.  MORGAN,  Milesville,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

GILBERT  O.  KNUDTSON,  Bryant,  S.  D.  - - - - 


State  Senator,  11th  District 
State  Senator,  2 2nd  District 
State  Senator,  23rd  District 
State  Senator  24th  District 
State  Senator,  27th  District 
State  Senator,  37th  District 
State  Senator,  38th  District 
Representative,  54th  District 
Representative,  59th  District 


NOTE:  Some  of  the  names  above  given  may  not  appear  upon  the  Primary 
Ballot.  They  will  not  unless  there  is  opposition  within  the  party.  Where  there  is 
no  opposition  within  the  party,  the  candidate  automatically  becomes  the  nominee  of 
the  party  by  operation  of  the  present  Primary  Law. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


TOM  AYRES,  of  Zeona,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAT^ 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
UNITED  STATES  SENATOR 


Osceoir  Iowa  ® S’**®'  with  parents  to  a farm  near 

learnina  nrTnt'»i“  Removed  to  Hastings,  Iowa,  in  spring  of  1880,  and  began 

■TIain  Talk  ” Tn  Vermiilion,  S.  D.,  in  1884,  and  establisLd 

“North  r^^knta  a"®';?'/  N.  D.,  to  edit  the 

RetuiLd  to  Farmers-  Ailiance  and  Independent  Party. 

1893,  and  resumed  publication  of  “Plain  Talk.”  Proposed 
Le”l  Priv^te'^lenfet  ®®  for  Governor  in  1896,  and  upon  the  latter’s  election,  became 
to  of  Jhe  Fermera-  Jii®"  Position  for  four  years.  Was  a mem- 

progressive  economfp  Knights  of  Labor,  and  an  incessant  advocate  of 

s D in  the  snrTJ  of  1 ()?«  a P''°srams.  Located  on  a ranch  in  Perkins  County, 
NT  1916,  ao d now  runs  300  Angus  cattle  on  his  ranee  Joined 

Third^DfstHcMn  itlT^  candidate  for  Congress  in  the 

luira  uistrict  in  1918.  Has  a wife  and  four  grown  children. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


ENGEBRET  J.  HOLTER,  of  Canton,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS,  FIRST  DISTRICT 


Born  in  Lincoln  County,  South  Dakota,  March  1,  1873.  Completed  a common 
school  course  at  an  early  age,  which  was  followed  by  a three  years’  course  at 
Augustana  College,  Canton,  S.  D.  He  later  spent  two  years  in  travel  through  the 
Eastern  and  Southern  States  studying  industrial  conditions.  .Was  first  affiliated  with 
the  Farmers’  Alliance  and  has  been  interested  in  farm  organizations  since.  He  is 
still  an  active  farmer  in  the  community  where  he  was  born.  He  has  a wife  and 
one  son. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


FRANK  WHALEN,  of  Aberdeen,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS,  SECOND  DISTRICT 


Was  born  on  a farm  near  Lansing,  Iowa.  He  is  thirty-six  years  of  age.  He  left 
e farni  in  the  spring  of  1907,  and  pioneered  as  a homesteader  in  what  is  now 
County,  South  Dakota.  He  remained  there  for  a year  and  then  engaged  with 
the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  & St.  Paul  railroad  engineering  department,  in  which  ca- 
pacity  he  worked  for  seven  years.  He  is  at  present  a railway  trainman  on  the 
Aberdeen  Division  of  that  road.  He  was  at  one  time  a member  of  the  Aberdeen 
police  force,  where  he  served  with  credit  to  himself  and  the  city  of  Aberdeen.  He  is 
a resident  of  Aberdeen  and  active  in  railroad  circles,  being  the  choice  of  the  rail- 
way workers  of  that  city  for  members  of  congress  on  the  Nonpartisan  ticket.  He 
IS  a member  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Railway  Trainmen,  Lodge  No.  637,  and  Amer- 
ican Federation  of  Labor  No.  16073.  He  has  a good  common  school  education,  but 
has  improved  his  early  training  by  diligent  study  of  the  best  authors  on  economics. 


NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


O.  E.  FARNHAM,  of  Newell,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS,  THIRD  DISTRICT 


Was  born  on  a farm  in  William's  County,  Ohio,  in  1878,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  Common  Schools  of  Williams  County  and  the  Edgerton  High  School. 
He  also  attended  the  Indiana  Tri-State  Normal  College  at  Angola,  Indiana,  a Busi- 
ness College  at  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  completed  his  law  education  at  the  University  of 
Michigan.  He  is  married  and  has  three  boys. 

Mr.  Farnham  has  been  a resident  of  his  Congressional  District  for  more  than 
twenty  years.  Served  as  County  Judge  of  Butte  County  from  1904  to  1908.  Was 
active  in  promoting  the  Belle  Fourche  Irrigation  Project  and  has  been  attorney  for 
the  Farmers’  Association  on  the  project  since  1908. 

He  homesteaded  on  an  irrigated  farm  near  Newell  in  1909,  and  resided  on 
this  farm  until  the  fall  of  1918.  Is  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  problems  con- 
fronting the  farmers  and  stockmen  of  Western  South  Dakota,  and  is  vitally  interested 
and  enthusiastic  over  the  possibilities  of  irrigation  and  water  power  development  in 
his  District. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


MARK  P.  BATES,  of  Letcher,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
GOVERNOR 


Was  born  on  the  eleventh  day  of  March,  1878,  at  Hezleton,  Buchanan  County, 
Iowa.  His  parents  broug'ht  him  to  Dakota  Territory  in  the  spring  of  1880,  settling 
on  a homestead  nine  miles  north  of  Mitchell.  In  the  winter  of  1891,  his  father  was 
thrown  from  a load  of  hay  and  killed.  The  Bates  brothers,  six  in  all,  were  charged 
with  the  responsibility  of  the  farm,  and  the  payment  of  the  debts,  which  they  dis- 
charged, while  making  themselves  well-to-do.  Mark  P.  Bates  is  the  owner  of  four 
hundred  acres  of  land  in  Sanborn  County,  highly  improved.  He  is  a famous  breeder 
of  pedigreed  Chester  White  Hogs  and  Hereford  cattle.  He  is  a leading  member  of 
the  Farmers'  Union  and  was  chosen  delegate  to  the  National  Convention  of  that  or- 
ganization. He  was  educated  in  the  country  schools,  supplemented  with  a course 
in  Wesleyan  University,  Mitchell.  He  has  a wife  and  four  children,  three  daughters 
and  one  son.  He  was  the  Nominee  of  the  Nonpartisan  League  for  governor  in  1918. 
Mr.  Bates  is  a man  of  kindly  disposition,  and  great  strength  of  character. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


C.  W.  BEST,  of  Huron,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE 


PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 

lieutenant  governor 


C.  W.  Best  was  born  at  Pembroke,  Maine,  on  March  12,  1865.  His  education 
was  begun  i'n  the  common  schools'  and  he  has  now  completed  a thirty  years  course 
in- the  great' public  school  of  South  Dakota,  during  which  time  his  principal  studies 
have  been  citizenship  and  home  building;  and  while  thus  engaged  he  has  been  official- 
ly connected  with  school  and  township  work.  He  was  elected  to  the  legislature 
from  Beadle  County  in  1916,  and  again  in  1918. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


WILLIAM  E.  NIELSEN,  of  Huron,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
SECRETARY  OF  STATE 


William  E.  Nielson  was  born  in  Madison,  Wisconsin,  January  5,  1890.  We  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Duluth,  Minnesota,  and  spent  most  of  his  young 
manhood  aiding  his  parents  to  make  a farm  out  of  a wild  tract  of  bush  land  near 
Finlayson,  Minnesota.  He  is  a locomotive  engineer  on  the  Chicago  & Northwestern 
Railroad,  and  resides  at  Huron,  S.  D.  He  is  Secretary  of  the  Union  Co-Operative 
Association  of  that  place  and  active  in  all  movements  for  the  betterment  of  labor 
conditions. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


ELIJAH  M.  DeLAP,  of  Lake  City,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
COMMISSIONER  OF  SCHOOL  AND  PUBLIC  LANDS 


Born  of  American  parents  on  December  23,  1866,  in  the  State  of  Iowa,  where 
he  lived  with  his  parents  till  1883,  when  the  family  removed  to  Miner  County,  South 
Dakota,  where  they  experienced  the  hardships  of  drought  and  low  prices  suffered 
by  all  the  settlers  of  that  day.  In  1900,  he  moved  with  his  family  to  Marshall  Coun- 
ty, South  Dakota,  where  he  was  for  some  time  in  charge  of  a large  cattle  ranch.  In 
the  spring  of  1902  he  started  farming  on  his  own  account  on  his  homestead,  where 
he  has  continued  to  live  since  that  time,  engaged  in  mixed  farming  and  stock  raising. 
In  August,  1919,  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  but  has  since  sold  out  that 
business.  He  had  one  son  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  and  one  son  in  the  army  in  France 
during  the  late  war.  Mr.  DeDap  ha's  a common  school  education,  which  he  has 
improved  by  diligent  study. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


ALICE  LORRAINE  DALY,  of  Madison,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION 


Alice  Lorraine  Daly  is  a native  of  Minnesota.  She  graduated  with  honors  from 
John  A.  Johnson  High  School,  St.  Paul,  completed  the  classical  course  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Minnesota  and  received  the  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree.  A year  later  she  re- 
ceived the  Master  of  Arts  Degree  from  the  same  institution.  While  pursuing  post 
graduate  work  at  the  University  of  Minnesota  Miss  Daly  specialized  in  English  and 
Pedagogy.  Throughout  her  college  course  she  was  deeply  interested  in  literary  and 
dramatic  work  and  was  a frequent  contributor  to  the  University  magazine.  Later 
she  continued  her  studies  at  the  Emerson  College  of  Oratory  and  completed  the  three 
years’  course.  While  there  she  was  president  of  the  Student’s  Club,  an  organization 
embracing  the  entire  student  body.  For  three  years  she  was  head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Public  Speaking  in  the  Idaho  Technical  College,  at  Pocatello.  She  then 
returned  to  Emerson  College  for  graduate  work,  upon  completion  of  which  she 
came  to  the  Madison,  S.  D.  Norman  Normal  as  head  of  the  Department  of  Public 
Speaking,  which  position  s^he  now  holds.  She  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the 
first  woman  to  address  the  South  Dakota  legislature. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


ARTHUR  J.  ANDERSON,  of  Aberdeen,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  NONPARTISAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
RAILROAD  COMMISSIONER,  SECOND  DISTRICT 


Arthur  J.  Anderson  was  born  at  Winthrop,  Minnesota,  June  8,  1889.  He  re- 
ceived a high  school  education  at  that  place.  His  first  experience  in  life  was  a 
service  of  four  years  in  the  telephone  business  at  Winthrop.  He  moved  to  South 
Dakota  in  1905  and  began  railway  work  as  a locomotive  fireman.  He  was  soon 
promoted  to  the  position  of  locomotive  engineer,  and  is  now  so  employed  on  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  & St.  Paul  railroad.  He  runs  out  of  Aberdeen,  where  he  has 
^ ^ home.  He  is  a member  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive  Engineers, 

Division  No.  726,  and  prominent  in  all  movements  that  look  to  the  betterment  of 
conditions  for  all  classes  of  men  who  work. 


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NONPARTISAN  LEAGUE  PARTY 


PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE  OF  THE 
NONPARTISAN  REPRESENTATIVE  STATE  PROPOSAL 
COMMITTEE 


1.  Public  ownership  and  development  of  all  natural  resources  w^hich  are  in 
themselves  susceptible  to  monopolistic  control. 

2.  That  we  heartily  approve  of  the  public  ownership  of,  and  operation  of  all 
public  utilities. 

3.  That  we  approve  of  the  so-called  “plumb  Plan”  of  railroad  control  and 
operation,  as  the  most  promising  solution  of  the  railroad  problem  at  the  present 
critical  period  in  our  transportation  history. 

4.  The  unqualified  right  of  the  workers  to  organize  and  deal  collectively  with 
employers. 

5.  A maximum  eight  hour  day,  and  forty-four  hours  a week,  with  one  full 
day’s  rest  in  seven,  in  all  branches  of  industrial  occupation. 

6.  A workman’s  compensation  law  similar  to  that  of  North  Dakota. 

7.  Complete  equality  of  women  and  men  in  industry  and  government,  with  the 
fullest  enfranchisement  of  women,  and  equal  pay  for  women  and  men  engaged  in 
similar  occupations. 

8.  Exemption  from  taxation  of  all  farm  improvements,  and  city  homes  to  the 
value  of  One  Thousand  Dollars. 

9.  State  terminal  elevators,  warehouses,  flour  mills,  stock  yards,  packing 
houses,  cold  storage  plants  and  sugar  refineries. 

10.  State  inspection  of  dockage  and  grading  of  grain. 

11.  Public  credit  banks  operated  at  cost. 

12.  A rational  state  hail  insurance  law. 

13.  Religious  liberty,  freedom  of  speech,  of  the  press,  and  of  assemblage,  being 
the  surest  safeguards  against  tyranny,  revolution,  and  reaction,  and  a guarantee  of 
the  orderly  development  of  industry,  and  the  peaceful  progress  of  society;  We  de- 
mand the  immediate  and  complete  restoration  of  these  fundamental  religious  and 
political  rights,  with  adequate  security  against  their  abridgment  or  infringement  by 
any  person  or  persons  whatsoever. 

14.  Since  it  is  impossible  for  our  State  ever  fully  to  appreciate  the  full  value, 
or  to  adequately  compensate  them  for  the  heroic  services  rendered  our  country  by 
our  soldiers,  sailors,  and  marines  in  the  late  war  with  Germany,  it  is  most  fitting 
and  essential  that  we  show  our  gratitude  to  them  by  providing  them  with  an  op- 
portunity to  gain  homes  for  themselves,  by  means  of  a bonus  as  large  as  that 
granted  by  our  Sister  State  of  North  Dakota. 

15.  Recall  of  all  elective  public  officials. 

16.  Militarism  is  a curse  from  which  the  whole  world  seeks  to  free  itself.  We 
therefore,  earnestly  oppose  any  system  of  compulsory  military  training,  and  favor 
a referendum  vote  before  any  declaration  of  war,  except  in  case  of  invasion  by  armed 
enemies. 


PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

“Nationalization  of  Public  Credits,  Utilities  and  Resources’’  for  National  Policy; 
“Preservation  of  Law,  Order  and  Civil  Rights’’  for  State  Policy. 


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ARGUMENT 

The  platform  of  the  Nonpartisan  League  means  what  it  says  and  says  what  it 
means.  The  men  who  made  it  did  so  with  a definite  purpose  to  get  economic  bene- 
fits, not  to  promote  the  ambitions  of  men.  Parties  are  mere  vehicles,  officials  must 
be  made  servants.  There  is  nothing  sacred  about  political  parties.  When  they 
cease  to  accomplish  the  general  good,  they  should  be  revolutionized  or  destroyed. 

There  can  be  no  domestic  peace  'till  our  great  natural  resources,  mines,  water 
power,  commercial  forests,  etc.,  are  publicly  owned.  Strikes,  lockouts  and  civil 
war  will  continue  so  long  as  any  man  or  group  of  men  own  these  things.  It  would 
be  as  foolish  to  give  some  man  a monopoly  of  the  water  supply  of  the  nation, 
as  to  allow  him  a monopoly  of  the  coal  supply.  Private  ownership  has 
proved  immoral,  and  to  continue  it  will  be  perilous.  Workers  readily  agree  with 
a just  public.  The  example  of  North  Dakota,  where  the  Governor  took  over  the 
mines,  is  enough.  There  the  people  got  coal.  The  federal  government  tried  to 
break  the  strike  by  injunctions  and  threats  of  jail  and  bayonets,  but  that  dug  no 
coal.  Nothing  but  private  greed  opposed  public  ownership.  Private  greed  must 
give  way  to  the  public  good. 

Public  ownership  of  public  utilities  is  the  established  policy  of  the  United  States. 
We  own  our  own  schoolhouses,  postofCices,  public  roads,  navy  yards,  battle  ships, 
etc.,  and  operate  them  without  profit,  for  service. 

Shall  the  public  own  the  railroads  and  operate  them  for  service  instead  of 
profit?  Regulation  has  failed  because  railroads  regulate  the  regulators.  The  lease 
made  by  the  government  in  war  time  is  not  “government  ownership,”  because  the 
railroads  have  run  the  government.  Railway  executives  have  systematically  “thrown 
a monkey  wrench  into  the  machine”  to  discredit  government  control.  We  favor 
the  tripartite  management  proposed  by  the  Plumb  plan,  because  it  promises  the  em- 
ployees, the  bondholders  and  the  public  at  large  an  equal  voice  in  the  management 
of  this  great  industry. 

It  is  proposed  to  establish  state-owned  elevators,  warehouses,  cold  storage 
plants,  packing  houses,  mills,  and  sugar  refineries  to  manufacture  our  raw  materials 
within  the  state,  save  millions  of  dollars  in  transportation,  and  keep  the  money  at 
home.  Outside  interests  now  control  our  markets  and  pay  us  what  they  please, 
because  they  monopolize  the  manufacture  of  our  raw  products.  North  Dakota  and 
Louisiana  have  gone  far  enough  in  their  experiments  to  demonstrate  the  feasibility 
of  this  method  of  building  up  home  industry. 

Establishment  of  a state-owned  bank  is  imperative  if  these  industries  are  to 
escape  attack  from  outside  interests.  Credit  is  the  mainspring  of  all  industry,  it  is 
the  motive  power  of  commerce.  By  mobilizing  the  deposits  of  the  people  and 
monopolizing  their  use,  the  banks  hold  the  business  world  by  the  throat,  and  compel 
the  people  to  PAY  interest  for  the  use  of  their  own  credit.  We  propose  that  the 
social  credit  of  the  producers  of  the  country’s  wealth  shall  be  mobilized  in  publicly- 
owned  banks,  and  rented  to  the  owners  of  that  credit  AT  COST.  Opposition  to  this 
program  comes  primarily,  and  almost  wholly,  from  those  engaged  in  banking,  and 
is,  therefore,  selfish.  Eventually  the  selfish  interest  must  give  way  to  the  general 
welfare. 

This  country  cannot  adopt  a system  of  Universal  military  training  unless  we 
are  ready  to  admit  that  our  war  against  Prussian  militarism  was  futile.  We  have 
contributed  the  blood  of  thousands  of  our  best  young  men,  and  mortgaged  the  future 
for  a hundred  years,  to  end  war.  Shall  we  now  adopt  a system  which  is  a constant 
temptation  to  future  wars?  We  believe  we  speak  the  sentiments  of  the  people  of 
South  Dakota,  including  the  soldiers  who  took  part  in  the  European  struggle  just 
closed,  when  we  declare  that  no  militaristic  policy  shall  be  fastened  upon  this  country 
if  it  lies  in  our  power  to  prevent  it. 

The  Issues  raised  by  this  platform  must  be  speedily  settled.  The  people  are 
impatient  of  broken  party  promises,  and  official  deceptions.  Our  opponents  offer 
nothing  definite  for  solution  of  the  pressing  problems  of  the  hour.  Too  frequently 
exponents  of  liberal  ideas  are  met  with  violence  instead  of  reason.  If  discussion. 


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weapon  with  which  error  can  be  defeated,  is  hindered  or  denied,— it  men 
and  speak  the  opinions  with  which  their  hearts  are  fuli — if  they 
ernmentTs  derd.®“  consider  their  grievances  and  programs,— then  tree  gov- 

'’’ee  assemblage,  and  relikious  toleration,  so 

Snst  h»  -T  assailed  in  South  Dakota  during  the  last  two  years, 

must  be  maintained  at  any  cost. 

To  this  end  the  Nonpartisan  League  pledges  its  invincible  will, 
idea  If  Amlrfca'Ssm”  privileges  to  none"  is  our 


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nonpartisan  league  representative  party  proposal 

CANDIDATES 


ms.  ABE  ROBB,  Florence,  S.  D.  - - - 

HRANK  D.  LEE,  Cedar  Canyon,  S.  D.  - - 

ms.  MINNIE  LOVINGER,  Ethan,  S.  D.  - 

I.  M.  HARDEN,  Lane,  S.  D.  - - - - ' 

^BE  ROBB,  Florence,  S.  D.  - - - - " 

).  S.  EVANS,  Mitchell,  S.  D.  - - - - 

rOM  AYRES,  Zeona,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

J.  HOLTER,  Canton,  S.^D.  - - - - 

^RANK  WHALEN,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - 

3.  E.  FARNHAM,  Newell,  S.  D.  - - - - 

d.  P.  BATES,  Letcher,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

3.  W.  BEST,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

WM.  E.  NIELSEN,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - 

HENRY  B.  ANDERSON,  Mitchell,  S.  D.  - 
lOHN  L.  FRITZ,  Parker,  S.  D.  - - - - 

3.  M.  BURCH,  Dixon,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

E.  M.  DeLAP,  Lake  City,  S.  D.  - - - - 

\LICE  LORRAINE  DALY,  Madison,  S.  D.  - 
ARTHUR  J.  ANDERSON,  Aberdeen,  S.  D. 
E.  JENNEWEIN,  Bison,  S.  D.  - - - - 

MRS.  J.  M.  KING,  St.  Lawrence,  S.  D.  - 
H.  T.  GERKEN,  Miranda,  S.  D.  - - - - 

G.  W.  HARVEY,  Colman,  S.  D.  - - - - 

30NRAD  ZIMBELMAN,  Dixon,  S.  D.  - - 

A.  F.  WISMER,  Britton,  S.  D.  - - - - 

ANDREW  HARMES,  Carpenter,  S.  D.  - - 

ADOLF  HOHERZ,  Eagle  Butte,  S.  D.  - - 

J.  W.  BATCHELLER,  Mission  Hill,  S.  D.  - 

PAUL  PRIDIG,  Frankfort,  S.  D.  - - - 

O.  S.  HAGEN,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - - - 


Presidential  Elector 

Presidential  Elector 

Presidential  Elector 

Presidential  Elector 

National  Committeeman 

Party  State  Chairman 

United  States  Senator 

Representative  in  Congress,  1st  District 

Representative  in  Congress,  2nd  District 

Representative  in  Congress,  3rd  District 

Governor 

Lieut.  Governor 

Secretary  of  State 

State  Auditor 

State  Treasurer 

Attorney  General 

Commissioner  of  School  and  Public 
Lands 

Superintendent  Public  Instruction 
Railroad  Commissioner,  2nd  District 
Railroad  Commissioner,  3rd  District 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 
Delegate  National  Convention 


NOTE:  Many  of  the  names  above  given  will  not  appear  upon  the  Primary 

Ballot,  due  to  the  fact  that  no  opposition  exists  within  the  party,  but  those  candidates 
automatically  become  nominees  of  the  Party  by  operation  of  the  present  Primary  Law. 

Where  vacancies  occur  in  the  party  proposal  for  nomination,  or  where  vacancy 
! may  occur  up  to  thirty  days  before  the  Primary,  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Proposal 
meeting  may  appoint  someone  to  fill  the  vacancy. 


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MILES  POINDEXTER,  of  Spokane,  Wash. 

INDIVIDUAL  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


Born  at  Memphis,  Tennessee,  in  1868.  Grew  up  on  a farm  at  Greenlee,  Rock- 
bridge County,  Virginia.  Attended  schools  in  the  neighborhood.  Fancy  Hill  Academy, 
and  Washington  and  Lee  University  in  the  county.  After  three  years  at  college,  he 
was  employed  in  surveying  and  other  occupations.  He  attended  the  law  school  of" 
Washington  and  Lee,  and  received  the  degree  of  B.L.  He  received  the  degree  of 
L.L.D.  from  George  Washington  University  in  1919. 

He  was  elected  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Walla  Walla  County,  Washington,  in, 
1892,  and  conducted  many  important  cases  for  the  County  and  State.  He  removed 
to  the  larger  city  of  Spokane,  and  was  Assistant  Prosecuting  Attorney,  conducting 
a great  variety  of  legal  actions,  many  of  them  of  great  importance.  Was  Judge  of 
the  Superior  Court  for  nearly  four  years,  resigning  to  become  a candidate  for  Con- 
gress. Was  elected  to  Congress,  and  elected  to  United  States  Senate  in  1910,  and 
re-elected  by  very  large  majorities.  During  his  entire  political  career  he  has  fought 
against  control  of  political  parties  or  of  the  government  by  any  special  class,  holding 
that  the  public  interest  should  be  the  government’s  only  concern. 


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MILES  POINDEXTER 


REPUBLICAN  INDIVIDUAL  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATE  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

I. 

This  government  was  founded  on  the  principles  that  no  special  class  should  con- 
trol it’  the  absolute  security  of  every  man  under  the  law  in  his  person  and  property, 
the  safe-guarding  of  the  general  welfare  of  our  people  by  keeping  the  government 
at  all  times  under  their  own  control,  both  at  home  and  in  a foreign  land,  or  on  the 
sea,  from  unlawful  injury  to  his  person  or  his  property  by  any  individual  or  special 
class,  or  by  any  foreign  power. 


Every  necessary  agency  of  the  government  should  be  used  to  give  complete  pro- 
tection to  the  lives  and  lawful  rights  of  American  citizens  in  Mexico;  and  the  inter- 
national duties  we  have  assumed  as  to  that  country,  by  reason  of  our  proximity,  and 
as  incidental  to  the  Monroe  doctrine,  should  be  at  once  performed.  The  launching 
and  withdrawing,  without  definite  purpose  or  result,  of  military  expeditions  to  Vera 
Cruz  and  other  portions  of  Mexico,  also  as  at  Archangel  and  other  portions  of  the 
world,  are  criminal  in  their  reckless  disregard  of  life  and  national  treasure  expended 
without  the  possibility  of  any  benefit  whatever. 


III. 

Alien  slackers,  who  renounced  their  “first  papers”  of  naturalization  in  order  to 
escape  military  service,  should  be  denied  citizenship  in  the  future,  and  should  be 
deported  without  delay  to  the  several  foreign  countries  from  which  they  came  to  the 
United  States,  in  order  that  the  opportunities  they  enjoy  may  be  left  for  loyal  citi- 
zens and  soldiers. 

Revolutionary  communism,  by  whatever  name  it  may  be  called,  must  be  ^^ot  and 
put  down  wherever  it  appears,  as  subversive  of  liberty.  There  can  be  no  compromise 
with  anarchy.  The  attempts  of  certain  radical  labor  leaders  to  coerce  congress  to 
enact  legislation  proposed  by  them,  if  successful,  would  be  government  by  a class  as 
in  Russia,  and  not  “by  the  people”  as  in  the  Ignited  States.  the 

transportation  until  the  railroads  are  nationalized  and  delivered  to  the  control  of  the 
employees,  if  successful,  would  be  government  by  terror,  for  a special  class. 

V. 

The  effort  of  certain  radical  leaders  of  labor  organizations  to  secure  control  of 
the  police  force  of  the  various  cities  of  the  country,  if  successful,  would  give  to  a 

smarspecial  class,  absolute  control  of  officers  of  the  "^^HSation 

agencies  established  to  preserve  the  peace.  Its  success  would  mean  the  abdication 
of  the  government  in  favor  of  the  class,  and  the  immediate  establishment  of  dic- 
tatorship. It  should  not  be  open  to  debate  or  negotiation. 


VI. 

This  nation  cannot  be  ruled  by  capital,  and  it  cannot  be  .ruled  by  labor.  Both 
capitll  anflabor  must  be  s to  the  rule  of  the  people.  The  government  must 

be^supreme  The  just  claims  of  labor  should  be  recognized  and  every  opportunity 
should  be  given  to  laboring  men,  and  their  families,  for  comfort 

laboring  man  above  all  others,  is  benefited  by  rufe  ^ 

the  security  of  life,  person,  and  property  against  violence  and  arbitrary  rule.  But 
Ihe  cff^riof  any  labor  leader  to  put  labor  in  control  of  the  government,  by  means  of 


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industrial  blockade,  economic  pressure,  intimidation  of  violence,  or  so-called  direct 
action,  cannot  be  tolerated,  any  more  than  such  an  effort  on  the  part  of  combined 
capital  would  be  tolerated.  Either  would  violate  the  cardinal  principles  of  free, 
government. 

Communism  is  inconsistent  with  the  vested  right  of  a laborer  to  the  wages  of 
his  labor.  The  right  to  work,  to  join  or  not  to  join  a union,  and  to  accumulate,  or 
to  use,  asi  one  sees  fit,  and  to  transmit  to  his  children  the  wages  of  his  work,  is  an 
essential  part  of  “life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness.” 

VII. 

These  essential  elements  of  liberty  are  menaced  by  revolutionary  doctrines. 
This  revolutionary  movement  is  international  in  its  scope  and  purpose.  It  has  re- 
ceived powerful  encouragement  from  the  administration.  Many  of  its  advocates 
have  occupied  high  place  in  the  government.  Instead  of  encouraging  a class  dic- 
tatorship it  is  the  business  of  the  government  to  preserve  the  ordered  liberty  of  the 
people,  and  to  protect  by  every  means  in  its  power  the  institution  on  which  it  is 
founded.  Defenders  and  advocates  of  those  who  have  been  convicted  by  due  process 
of  law  of  crimes  of  violence,  committed  in  pursuance  of  a revolutionary  and  com- 
munistic program,  should  be  dismissed  from  the  government  service. 

VIII. 

The  process  of  making  a “supreme  sacrifice”  of  America,  and  of  “joining  our 
fortunes  with  the  fortunes  of  men  everywhere”  should  be  stopped.  The  opposite  and 
ancient  policy  of  our  fathers  must  be  restored, — of  saving  instead  of  sacrificing  our 
great  institutions,  and  of  promoting  in  every  honorable  way  the  interests  of  our  people. 
The  process  of  internationalizing  our  fortunes  must  be  reversed,  and  the  separate 
interests  of  this  nation,  with  due  regard  for  the  rights  of  others,  must  be  cherished 
again. 


IX. 

America,  in  her  mighty  separate  station  which  the  fathers  gave  her,  leader  and 
champion  of  the  new  world,  the  friend  of  the  old,  must  preserve  her  sovereign  in- 
dependence, as  the  one  secure  seat  and  refuge  of  genuine  liberty. 

X. 

Radio  communication  between  the  United  States  and  the  rest  of  the  world  should  . 
be  under  American  control;  and  full  co-operation  by  the  navy  department  toward 
that  end  should  be  assured. 


XI. 

An  ample  merchant  marine  under  the  American  flag  is  essential  to  national 
prosperity.  The  merchant  service  and  the  fisheries  afford  a training  school  for  sea- 
men; and  every  facility  for  the  development  of  these  great  essentials  of  national 
defense  should  be  provided. 

XII. 

I favor  an  extensive  system  of  national  roads — built  on  approved  engineering 
principles,  located  with  a view  to  military  defense  as  well  as  civil  and  commercial 
use,  co-ordinated  with  existing  highways  so  as  to  form  a national  as  well  as  local 
system. 

XIII.  , 

Peace  with  Germany  should  be  declared  at  once.  . ■ 


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XIV. 

The  peace  treaty  should  be  stripped  of  the  extraneous  incumbrances  which  have 
,een  placed  upon  it;  and  which  have  so  long  delayed  it,  and  the  permanent  burdens 
rhich^it  proposed  to  place  upon  the  United  States  in  the  conduct  of  European  affairs 
hould  be  at  once  rejected. 

2L\  • 

Every  American  soldier,  except  those  engaged  in  diplomatic  or  other  peaceful 
lervice  should  be  at  once  withdrawn  from  Europe  and  the  continent  of  Asia;  and 
he  work  of  recruiting  and  transporting  military  forces  of  the  United  States  for 
service  in  Siberia  and  Germany,  and  the  plans  being  made  for  sending  an  American 
irmy  to  Turkey  should  be  at  once  suppressed.  The  resources  of  our  people  and  the 
activities  of  their  government  should  be  devoted  to  their  own  interests  instead  of  to 
:hose  of  foreign  nations. 


The  proposal  which  has  been  recently  presented  to  the  American  people  that 
the  United  States  should  become  a trustee  for  the  world  should  be  denounced  as 
destructive  of  liberty  and  ruinous  to  the  American  people,  as  well  as  injurious  to 
the  peace  and  safety  of  the  world. 


XVII. 

The  formal  proposal  recently  laid  before  the  senate,  by  which,  in  the  case  of 
future  emergencies,  the  American  people  cannot  increase  their  army  or  navy  without 
the  unanimous  consent  and  permission  of  a combination  of  foreign  powers,  would 
violate  the  Constitution  and  surrender  the  sovereignty  of  the  nation.  It  should  be 
denounced  as  treasonable. 

XVIII. 


The  Monroe  doctrine  should  be  re-established  in  its  full  vigor;  and  the  partici- 
pation  which  it  is  proposed  to  give  Europe  in  the  controi  of  American  affairs  shouid 


be  denied. 


XIX. 


Should  a future  exigency  in  European  affairs  again  arise  of  such  proportions  as 
to  menace  the  interests  of  the  United  States,  the  American  people  must  be  entirely 
free  to  determine  for  themselves  in  their  own  generation  the  extent  and  manner  in 
which  they  shall  intervene. 


The  recent  assumption  by  certain  officials  of  our  government  of  jurisdiction  of 
the  settlement  of  foreign  controversies,  which  are  of  but  remote  concern  to  us,  has 
engendered  racial  animosities  against  the  United  States.  We  should  cease  officious 
meddling  with  other  people’s  affairs.  The  ancient  American  doctrine  of  confining 
our  participation  in  governmental  matters  to  the  American  continent,  while  we  stand 
as  a friendly  neutral  to  all  nations  with  which  we  are  at  peace,  should  be  restored. 


XXI. 

The  ancient  policy  under  which  we  have  enjoyed  peace  and  prosperity,  and  at- 
tained greatness,  with  honest  friendship  and  intimate  social  and  commercial  inter- 
course with  the  rest  of  the  world,  should  be  re-established.  The  war  being  over, 
our  people  should  be  allowed  to  enjoy  the  peace  which  their  victory  won. 

XXII. 

There  is  no  “royal  road”  to  happiness,  either  in  governmental  or  personal  af- 
fairs. Success  must  come  from  struggle  and  “eternal  vigilance.”  It  is  a mistake 
to  assume  that  a remedy  can  be  found  for  all  the  ills  of  mankind.  Certain  funda- 
mental truths  of  government  have  been  evolved  by  experience  and  are  fixed  as  the 
foundations  of  our  .’nstitutions.  To  them  we  must  adhere,  and  working  upon  that 
basis,  in  a healthy  evolution,  and  not  by  revolution,  we  can  adapt  our  laws  and  ad- 
ministration to  the  needs  of  the  people  as  conditions  develop;  cleaving  to  the  ancient 
principles  of  the  Constitution.  By  so  doing  we  shall  preserve  for  ourselves  and  oy 
posterity  that  happy  state  which,  we  have  attained  among  the  nations  of  the  earth. 


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PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

American  Government  free  from  Class  or  Foreign  Control. 


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REPUBLICAN  INDIVIDUAL  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATE  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
ARGUMENT 

In  nineteen-twelve,  and  for  some  years  prior  thereto,  much  complaint  was  made 
against  the  control  of  politics  by  private  business  interests.  Business  was  in  politics 
for  its  own  protection  and  its  own  profit,  and  attained  such  control  over  party  organ- 
izations that  it  was  well  denominated  the  “invisible  government.”  This  led  to  a great 
political  revolt  in  which  the  “invisible  government”  was  overthrown.  The  House 
and  Senate  were  liberalized,  and  new  methods  of  party  control  were  widely  es- 
tablished. Senator  Poindexter  was  a leader  in  this  movement. 

A more  vicious  special  class  now  menaces  the  nation.  A powerful  communist 
movement  seeks  to  establish  by  force  and  violence,  sabotage  and  strikes,  a so-called 
working-class  government.  It  must  be  suppressed  or  it  will  destroy  free  govern- 
ment in  America,  make  slaves  of  labor,  and  mere  serfs  of  farmers,  in  a process  of 
nationalization  of  the  soil.  As  before.  Senator  Poindexter  opposes  the  effort  to 
make  the  government  an  agency  of  class  aggrandizement. 

Anarchy  should  be  surpressed,  European  internationalism  should  be  rejected,  the 
Constitution  should  be  rededicated  to  liberty,  and  the  resources  of  the  nation  should 
be  devoted  to  interests  of  the  American  people. 


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HIRAM  W.  JOHNSON,  of  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

INDIVIDUAL  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


Hiram  W.  Johnson,  fifty-three  years  old,  born  Sacramento,  California,  married, 
with  two  sons.  Major  Archibald  M.  Johnson  and  Hiram  W.  Johnson,  Jr.  A leading 
lawyer,  he  volunteered,  without  compensation,  during  San  Francisco’s  graft  cases, 
after  Heney  was  shot,  and  convicted  the  political  boss  who  had  corrupted  San 
Francisco. 

Was  elected  Governor  of  California  in  1910,  after  speaking  at  every  crossroad 
and  city,  sweeping  from  power  the  great  Railroad  Machine  which  had  controlled 
California’s  politics  forty  years. 

Enacted  into  statutes,  humanitarian  principles  and  those  bringing  government 
closer  to  the  people,  and  made  California  a leading  forward-looking  state.  Redeemed 
every  platform  pledge,  won  the  support  of  every  diverse  interest  by  his  able,  busi- 
ness-like administration,  and  1916,  during  his  second  term,  was  elected  Senator  by 
290,000. 

As  Senator  he  supported  every  war  measure,  boldly  fought  for  free  speech  and 
now  is  leading  exponent  of  Americanism  in  the  Nation. 

In  1912,  when  Johnson  ran  as  Vice  President  with  him,  Roosevelt  said,  “In  Gov- 
ernor Johnson  we  have  a man  whose  every  word  is  made  good  by  the  deeds  that  he 
has  done.  We  have  nominated  a man  fit  at  the  moment  to  be  President.” 


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HIRAM  W.  JOHNSON 

REPUBLICAN  INDIVIDUAL  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATE  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

“I  submit  a candidacy  to  the  people  of  South  Dakota  upon  a record  of  past  per- 
formance rather  than  of  future  promise. 

“I  believe  that  this  government  belongs  to  all  the  people,  not  to  a favored  few; 
that  the  farmer  and  the  toiler  have  the  same  rights  and  the  same  privileges  as  the 
banker  and  the  capitalist;  that  all  classes  are  subject  and  none  superior  to  the  laws. 

“I  stand  now  for  exactly  what  I stood  for  in  California  during  six  years  of  gov- 
ernorship there  and  for  exactly  for  what  I fought  in  1912  w^hen  I was  for  Theodore 
Roosevelt  for  President.  I believe  that  our  government  should  be  brought  closer  to 
our  people  and  that  the  human  as  well  as  the  material  should  be  the  concern  of 
government. 

“The  men  and  women  of  California  have  demonstrated  that  a people’s  govern- 
ment is  not  only  possible  but  workable  and  profitable,  and  there  after  some  years  of 
struggle  every  class  has  finally  recognized  that  a government  in  behalf  of  all,  with 
sinister  and  exploiting  interests,  material  or  political,  eliminated,  is  after  all  the  very 
best  government.  Humanitarianism.  in  California  has  been  written  into  law.  A boss 
ridden  state  was  redeemed  from  a selfish  and  corrupt  corporation  and  its  government, 
which  had  been  a mere  part  of  that  corporation,  has  been  returned  to  the  people. 
That  the  people  might  thereafter  protect  themselves  from  a recurrence  of  the  evils  of 
the  past,  the  initiative,  referendum  and  recall  were  adopted.  A real  direct  primary 
law  gave  the  people  themselves  rather  than  the  bosses  the  opportunity  to  select  public 
officials.  A public  utility  act  while  doing  justice  to  the  public  service  corporations 
did  justice  as  well  to  the  state,  controlled  and  regulated  all  public  utilities  and  pro- 
tected the  people  from  corporate  extortion.  A blue  sky  law  prevented  the  exploita- 
tion of  the  weak  by  wild-cat  investments.  A workman’s  compensation  law  compelled 
industry  to  bear  the  just  burden  of  injured  workers  and  protected  alike  employers 
and  employees.  A minimum  wage  commission  enabled  unorganized  women  to  ob- 
tain a living  wage.  An  eight  hour  day  for  women  ameliorated  their  condition  and 
brought  greater  efficiency  to  their  work.  A board  of  control  eliminated  favoritism 
in  the  public  business  and  a budget  system  transformed  the  old  log  rolling  methods 
in  obtaining  appropriations  into  an  orderly,  scientific  and  economic  system.  Economy 
followed  waste  and  extravagance  in  the  use  of  public  moneys  and  all  the  public 
moneys  were  expended  for  the  benefit  of  the  people.  Business  was  fostered  and  pro- 
tected in  every  legitimate  activity.  An  empty  treasury  was  transmuted  into  the 
largest  balance  the  state  ever  had.  The  demonstration  was  complete  that  govern- 
ment for  all  the  people  pays  and  the  demonstration  brought  the  commendation  even 
of  those  who  had  first  most  bitterly  opposed  it. 

“What  has  been  done  in  that  state  can  be  done  in  the  nation  today.  Our  na- 
tional government  has  departed  from  its  original  conception  and  purpose.  It  drifts 
now  with  one  class  and  now  with  another.  I would  have  it  of  no  class  but  for  all. 
I would  lay  the  heavy  hand  of  the  law  with  equal  severity  upon  the  millionaire 
profiteer  and  the  law  breaking  agitator.  I would  do  nationally  what  has  been  done 
in  California — recognize  the  just  claims  of  all  citizens,  permit  none  to  exploit  gov- 
ernment, drive  from  place  and  power  those  who  would  dishonestly  and  unjustly  profit 
from  government,  and  acknowledge  that  government’s  first  obligation  is  to  its 
humanity. 

“In  our  foreign  relations  I would  have  friendship  and  amity  with  all  nations, 
entangling  alliances  with  none.  I believe  the  United  States  should  play  her  part  in 
the  world  but  that  part  should  be  determined  by  our  people,  and  the  time  and  the 
mode  of  our  participation  should  be  decided  by  Americans  alone.  We  should  never 
surrender  any  part  of  our  sovereignty,  never  abandon  our  liberty  of  action.  We 
should  preserve  in  their  pristine  purity  the  institutions  which  have  been  handed  down 


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to  us  and  transmit  them  to  posterity  undimmed  in  their  luster  and  unfettered  in 
their  freedom.  Ever  ready  should  we  be  to  answer  humanity’s  cry  or  civilization’s 
call,  but  we  should  answer  them  in  our  own  way  and  in  our  own  time.  Our  re- 
sources and  our  man  power  should  never  either  directly  or  inferentially  be  placed 
under  foreign  powers  nor  be  subject  to  the  direction  of  a conclave  or  confederation 
where  representatives  of  foreign  nations  predominate.  Our  country  must  not  in  any 
league  or  society  be  made  subordinate  or  inferior  in  representation  or  voting  power 
to  any  nation  on  earth. 

“We  must  maintain  our  prestige  and  our  world  position,  preserve  and  enlarge 
our  commerce,  protect  our  citizens  wherever  they  may  be.  In  short  we  must  be 
American. 

“Our  government  should  be  brought  closer  to  our  people.  This  may  be  done 
by  direct  primaries  and  direct  legislation. 

“Party  organizations  should  be  responsible  to  party  membership.  The  recent 
exercise  of  autocratic  power  must  be  made  forever  impossible.  The  wasteful  ex- 
travagance of  national  government  must  be  checked  and  rigid  economy  enforced. 
The  present  method  of  appropriations  should  be  eliminated  and  a budget  system 
adopted.  ' 

“Industrial  unrest  must  be  attacked  by  attacking  the  causes  and  must  be  met 
by  lessening  the  causes  through  social  and  industrial  justice.  Foreign  anarchy  must 
be  met  by  unflinching  enforcement  of  the  law. 

“There  must  be  justice  with  law  and  order.  The  right  of  legitimate  expres- 
sion, the  free  speech  of  our  constitution,  must  be  protected  and  maintained.  A free 
press  must  be  preserved.  A land  settlement  plan  like  that  in  vogue  in  California 
should  be  adopted  nationally.  The  soldiers  who  fought  the  great  war  sihould  re- 
ceive from  the  government  their  full  recognition  and  reward.  In  their  rehabilitation 
and  reconstruction  problems  they  are  entitled  to  the  government’s  generous  aid. 

“With  the  present  power  of  the  National  Government  there  can  be  no  excuse  for 
a failure  intelligently  to  attack  the  existing  evil  of  the  high  prices  of  necessities. 
Every  power  should  be  utilized  to  the  utmost  to  reduce  the  high  cost  of  living. 

“In  direct  appeal  to  the  people  I shall  hereafter  amplify  that  for  which  I have 
stood  in  the  past  and  for  which  I am  now  striving — a government  responsive  to  its 
people  alone,  a democracy  devoted  to  the  Americanism  of  our  fathers  which  must  be 
protected  and  preserved  for  those  who  follow  us.” 

PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

Americanism:  Freedom  speech,  press;  Justice  with  law,  order. 


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DICK  HANEY,  of  Huron,  S.  D. 

INDIVIDUAL  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
UNITED  STATES  SENATOR 


Has  resided  in  Dakota  Territory  and  South  Dakota  since  1885.  He  was  circuit 
judge  from  November  2,  1889,  to  February  2,  1896,  when  he  became  one  of  the 
judges  of  the  supreme  court,  continuing  in  that  office  until  January,  1913.  He  was 
chief  reviser  of  the  commission  which  prepared  the  Revised  Code  of  1919.  When 
not  holding  these  offices  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He 
was  born  at  Lansing,  Iowa,  November  10,  1852.  His  father  was  a native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania,— his  mother  a native  of  Massachusetts.  His  early  education  was  acquired  at 
home  and  in  private  schools.  He  attended  the  Iowa  Wesleyan  University,  at  Mount 
Pleasant,  three  years.  He  graduated  from  the  law  college  of  the  State  University 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  by  the  supreme  court  of  Iowa,  in  1874. 


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DICK  HANEY 

REPUBLICAN  INDIVIDUAL  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATE  FOR 
UNITED  STATES  SENATOR 
ARGUMENT 

Judge  Haney  is  a thoughtful,  consistent  republican,  who  believes  that  every  pro- 
vision of  the  federal  constitution  should  be  fully  respected  and  enforced  by  appro- 
priate legislation,  where  legislation  is  necessary.  He  favors  liberal  recognition  of 
military  service;  universal  military  training;  universal  instruction  in  the  obliga- 
tions and  advantages  of  American  citizenship;  protection  of  American  labor  from 
foreign  competition;  equality  of  compensation  for  the  same  service  to  men  and 
women  in  all  vocations;  government  regulation,  not  ownership,  of  public  utilities  and 
such  commodities  as  necessary  food,  clothing  and  fuel.  He  believes  that  the  right 
to  lawfully  acquire,  i^ssess  and  enjoy  private  property  is  absolutely  essential  to 
human  progress;  that  every  one  who  advocates  any  change  in  the  government  by 
other  than  constitutional^  methods,  or  who  incites  lawlessness  for  any  purpose,  should 
be  imprisoned  or  deported;  and  that  the  paramount  issue,  at  this  time,  is  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  government  by  law,  under  which  the  United  States  has  attained  its  present 
pre-eminent  position  among  the  nations  of  the  earth. 


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C.  H.  DILLON,  of  Yankton,  S.  D. 

INDIVIDUAL  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS,  FIRST  DISTRICT 


C.  H.  Dillon,  a lifelong  Republican,  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  an  Indiana  farm, 
worked  his  way  through  college,  practiced  law  at  Mitchell  and  Yankton,  homesteaded 
in  Miner  County.  Is  a Congregationalist,  was  head  of  the  State  Bar  Association  one 
term.  Vice-president  Board  of  Trustees  of  Yankton  College  for  seventeen  years;  State 
Senator  for  four  terms  and  congressman  three  terms. 

In  Congress  seldom  missed  a roll-call,  was  member  of  Interstate  and  Foreign 
Commerce  Committee  in  which  Chairman  Adamson  said  that  he  did  more  work  than 
any  other  member,  gave  his  constituency  prompt  departmental  service;  advocated 
eight  hour  day  for  women.  Child  Labor  laws.  Childrens’  Bureau,  Women  Suffrage 
resolutions.  Prohibition  and  all  progressive  legislation;  supported  all  war  measures. 
Favors  National  aid  to  Public  Health  Departments  for  the  prevention  of  diseases,  and 
help  to  mother,  child  and  humanity,  destruction  of  l^and  monopoly,  purchase,  sub- 
division and  sale  by  Government  of  large  tracts  of  land  to  service  men  at  cost;  freedom 
of  press  and  speech,  and  preservation  of  Constitutional  rights. 

After  the  armistice  he  investigated  the  camps  around  Newport  News,  at  his  own 
expense,  and  was  the  first  congressman  to  call  attention  in  the  House  to  the  reckless 
waste  of  government  property. 


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C.  H.  DILLON 

INDIVIDUAL  REPUBLICAN  CANDIDATE  FOR 
CONGRESS,  FIRST  DISTRICT 
ARGUMENT 

The  need  of  the  hour  is  efficient  work  in  production  and  economy. 

The  Government  at  Washington  has  fifty  thousand  too  many  clerks,  three  times 
too  many  Boards  and  Commissions.  The  League  of  Nations  creates  one  hundred  and 
seventy  tribunals  and  commissions;  eliminate  useless  departments  and  employees. 

Our  National  Budget  will  be  about  five  billion  dollars  annually.  The  money 
you  keep  is  money  saved.  To  have  National  and  Stale  development  of  industries  we 
must  require  faithful  and  honest  service.  Foreign  enemies  of  our  government 
should  be  deported;  mob  law  prohibited  and  justice,  law  and  order  established. 

Internationalism  with  its  brood  of  evils  portend  troubles.  No  alien  tribunal 
should  make  policemen  of  our  soldiers.  Peace  treaty  with  reservations  protecting 
our  sovereignty  has  been  too  long  delayed. 

He  believes  in  curbing  the  packers  and  profiteers  by  limiting  their  profits.  Be- 
cause he  endeavors  to  prohibit  gambling  in  grain  exchanges,  members  of  the  Minne- 
apolis exchange  secretly  fought  his  nomination. 

His  candidacy  is  not  inspired  by  the  bosses,  he  stands  within  the  spirit  of  the 
primary  law,  without  combinations  or  entanglements  and  solicits  the  support  of  all 
Republicans  for  a creed  that  places  principles  above  men,  human  rights  above  prop- 
erty rights. 


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R.  O.  RICHARDS,  of  Huron,  S.  D. 

INDIVIDUAL  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
GOVERNOR 


Mr.  Richards,  a citizen  of  United  States  by  choice,  was  born  in  Norway,  Janu- 
ary 2,  1866;  came  to  United  States  in  May,  1881;  acted  as  interpreter  at  Castle 
Garden  for  two  years,  when  he  came  west  and  located  in  South  Dakota.  Except- 
ing his  six  years  of  service  as  member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  City  of 
Huron,  he  has  never  held  a public  office.  He  has  devoted  sixteen  years  to  the  adop- 
tion of  the  present  primary  election  law,  and  is  a candidate  for  Governor  to  set  in 
operation  the  publicity  feature  of  the  law  which  requires  legal  discussion,  between 
candidates  for  Governor,  of  proposed  issues  to  determine  the  paramount  state  issue, 
otherwise  this  feature  of  the  law  would  not  have  been  taken  up  in  this  campaign. 
He  believes  that  if  experience  shall  show  that  the  primary  election  law  should  be 
amended  in  some  ways,  that  it  should  be  done  by  its  friends,  not  its  enemies,  and 
that  the  position  of  Governor  would  be  a great  aid  in  this  respect. 


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R.  O.  RICHARDS 


REPUBLICAN  INDIVIDUAL  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATE  FOR 

GOVERNOR 

PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

1.  The  saloon,  or  any  public  place  resorted  to  for  the  purpose  of  drinking 
wine,  beer,  or  other  so-called  intoxicating  liquors,  as  a beverage,  is  an  unqualified 
evil,  which  should  not  be  tolerated  under  any  circumstances. 

2.  Any  law  which  prohibits  the  keeping  and  use  of  such  liquors  by  all  persons, 
in  their  own  homes,  regardless  of  individual  character  and  conduct,  or  which,  in 
any  manner,  interferes  with  the  use  of  wine  for  sacramental  purposes,  according  to 
the  ritual  or  custom  of  any  religious  society,  is  subversive  of  civil  and  religious 
liberty,  invades  inherent  individual  rights  and  must  inevitably  produce  greater  evils 
than  those  resulting  from  the  open  Saloon. 

3.  Observation  affords  abundant  proof  that  “bone-dry”  prohibition  fosters  the 
illicit  manufacture  and  secret  excessive  use  of  impure  intoxicants  and  injurious 
drugs,  encourages  deceit,  disregard  of  law,  and  tends  to  defeat  the  very  purpose  it 
is  supposed  to  serve,  and  experience  has  proven  that  the  enforcement  of  our  bone- 
dry  probition  law  invades  the  privacy  of  the  home  and  interferes  with  individual 
liberty  unwarrantably  and  without  redress  to  the  citizen. 

4.  Moral  character  «and  individual  responsibility  cannot  ^ exist  without  indi- 
vidual liberty  of  conscience  and  conduct. 

5.  Constitutional  and  statutory  prohibition  should  be  superseded  by  wise  and 
reasonable  regulations  which  do  not  take  away  fundamental  individual  rights, 
calculated  to  promote  temperance,  morality  and  respect  for  law. 

6.  All  legislation  should  be  designed  to  promote  temperance,  morality,  pa- 
triotism and  respect  for  law.  Legislation  relating  to  the  so-called  intoxicating 
liquors  should  provide  rewards  as  well  as  punishment, — a practical,  individual,  legal 
merit  system  in  the  order  and  form  of  a temperance  law;  a system  of  moral  per- 
mits, or  certificates  of  good  character,  to  be  issued  by  the  state,  through  the  political 
official  division  in  which  the  citizen  resides  and  is  in  business,  to  him  who  sells 
and  to  him  who  buys;  a system  which  distinguishes  between  the  vast  majority  who 
are  temperate,  industrious  and  honest  and  the  small  minority,  who  disregard  their 
moral  and  social  obligations;  a system  which  will  prevent,  through  strict  inspec- 
tions, the  sale  and  use  of  impure  products  and  remove  the  temptation  of  excessive 
profits  derived  from  the  unlawful  manufacture  and  sale  of  such  products;  and  which 
shall  forbid  the  appropriation,  destruction  or  injury,  by  the  State,  of  any  private 
property,  or  individual  right,  lawfully  acquired,  without  just  compensation  having 
been  first  paid  or  secured  to  the  owner  thereof. 

PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

Efficient  temperance  legislation  consistent  with  inherent  individual  rights. 


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R.  O.  RICHARDS 


Candidate  for  the  Republican  nomination  for  Governor  of  South  Dakota,  offer's 
the  following  in  support  of  his  proposal  for  adoption  of  his  “Paramount  Issue”  for 
the  Republican  party  platform,  by  explaining  his  proposal  as  “one  well  defined 
and  definite  principle  for  a public  policy.” 

ARGUMENT 

As  a remedy  for  the  evils  of  prohibition,  the  saloon  and  intemperance,  I advocate 
the  individual  legal  merit  system.  This  places  the  production,  distribution  and  con- 
sumption of  Wine  upon  a moral  basis  and  makes  every  citizen  stand  on  his  own 
merits,  as  a free,  responsible  and  intelligent  human  being,  and  merely  requires  a 
law  that  only  persons  over  twenty-one  and  who  conform  to  the  rules  of  morality  (as 
defined  by  the  Courts  in  Moore  vs.  Schockling,  50,  L.  R.  A.,  279,  Lyon  vs.  Mitchell, 
36,  N.  Y.  235)  shall  be  permitted  to  buy,  sell  or  make  intoxicating  liquor  and  that 
all  electors  who  violate  such  rules  shall  be  deprived  of  the  right  to  vote.  Such  a law 
would  be  moral,  have  general  support  dnd  be  easily  enforced,  while  prohibition  is 
unmoral;  it  would  offer  incentive  to  right  living;  vitalize  the  teachings  of  the  school, 
lodge  and  church;  make  the  right  to  vote  more  valuable  and  appreciated;  promote 
temperance,  industry,  efficiency  and  respect  for  law;  diminish  crime,  poverty,  dis- 
content, and  ultimately  lead  to  incorporation  of  Christian  morality  into  our  entire 
legal  system,  realizing  an  Americanism  in  harmony  with  best  impulses  and  highest 
aspirations  of  modern  civilization. 


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E.  C.  HALL,  of  Vivian,  S.  D. 

JOINT  LEGISLATIVE  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
STATE  SENATOR,  25th  SENATORIAL  DISTRICT 

Was  born  at  Chicago,  111.,  February  17,  1880,  and  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  city;  moved  to  South  Dakota  in  190  6 and  homesteaded  near  Vivian. 
Has  been  a resident  of  Lyman  and  Jones  Counties  for. thirteen  years.  In  1914  he 
was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  legislature;  re-elected  in  1916;  while  a mem- 
ber of  the  lower  house  he  introduced  and  secured  the  passage  of  several  laws 
beneficial  to  his  district  and  the  state  at  large,  among  them  being  a joint  resolution 
memoralizing  Congress  to  compel  the  erection  of  the  steel  bridge  across  the  Missouri 
River  at  Chamberlain  which  is  now  partly  ’completed.  Soon  after  war  was  declared 
on  Germany  he  entered  the  United  States  Army  and  served  from  August,  1917,  to 
January,  1919.  Upon  being  discharged  from  the  army  he  returned  to  Lyman  County 
and  re-engaged  in  the  real  estate  business.  Is  married  and  resides  at  Vivian,  S.  D. 


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A.  L.  FREELOVE,  of  Kennebec,  S.  D. 

INDIVIDUAL  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PETITION  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
STATE  SENATOR,  25th  DISTRICT 


A.  L.  Freelove,  Republican,  of  Kennebec,  South  Dakota,  was  born  at  Arcadia, 
Iowa;  lived  on  the  farm  for  8 years,  after  that  at  Manning,  Iowa,  where  he  finished 
High  School  in  1891.  Graduate  of  Valparaiso  Law  School  in  1897  and  admitted 
to  practice  in  Indiana  and  State  of  Iowa  in  1897.  Mayor  of  Sioux  Rapids,  Iowa,  in 
1902  and  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  until  he  came  to  Kennebec,  Lyman 
County,  South  Dakota,  in  1908.  Admitted  to  the  bar  in  South  Dakota.  In  the 
banking  business  in  Lyman  County,  South  Dakota,  since  1908  at  Kennebec  and  at 
Reliance.  Was  Vice-President  Bankers’  Association  of  South  Dakota  and  on  Board 
of  Directors.  Interested  in  farming  and  ranching  at  Kennebec  and  Reliance  and 
live  stock  and  improved  methods  of  farm  production  has  had  his  attention  for  years. 
Chairman  Lyman  County  War  Savings  Committee.  Jones  and  Lyman  County  had 
his  services,  as  a war  speaker,*  without  expense.  Married  in  1899  to  Alma  D.  Franke, 
of  Manning,  Iowa.  Has  two  children,  Arthur  F.  Freelove  and  Dorothy  Louise 
Freelove. 


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REPUBLICAN  CANDIDATES  PROPOSED  BY  INDIVIDUAL  PETITION 


MILES  POINDEXTER,  Spokane,  Wash.  - 
HIRAM  W.  JOHNSON,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 
WM.  GRANT,  WEBSTER,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
C.  H.  DILLON,  Yankton,  S.  D.  - - - - 

R.  W.  LEVITT,  Arlington,  S.  D.  - - • 

M.  J.  DeWOLF,  Letcher,  S.  D.  - - - - 

A.  J.  WALTNER.  Freeman,  S.  D.  - - - 

GRACE  D.  RICHARDS,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - 

FRANKLIN  T.  JACKSON,  Salem,  S.  D.  - 
PHILO  HALL,  Brookings,  S.  D.  - - - - 

JOHN  LONGSTAFF,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - 

DICK  HANEY,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - - 

R.  O.  RICHARDS,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - - 

JOHN  L.  BURKE,  Rapid  City,  S.  D.  - - 

F.  E.  VAN  ZEE,  Corsica,  S.  D.  - - - - 

B.  F.  MYERS,  Salem,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

M.  D.  EIDE,  Howard,  S.  D,  - - - - - 

A.  W.  FOX,  Fedora,  S.  D. 

F.  A.  FINCH,  Lemmon,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

GEORGE  O.  SLETTEN,  Buffalo,  S.  D.  - - 

FRANK  C.  TOTTEN,  Lemmon,  S.  D.  - - 

H,  P.  WILL,  Wessington  Springs,  S.  D.  - 
CHAS.  W.  GARDNER,  Ree  Heights,  S.  D. 
HARRY  T.  KENNEY,  Pierre,  S.  D.  - - 

J.  D.  MORRISON,  Elbon,  S.  D.  - - - - 

A.  L.  FREELOVE,  Kennebec,  S.  D.  - - - 

E.  C.  HALL,  Vivian,  S.  D.  _ - - - - 

H.  E.  COVEY,  Hamill,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

A.  W.  BARTELS,  Gary,  S.  D.  - - - - 

JOHN  J.  MERTENS,  Gettysburg,  S.  D.  - 
J.  H.  WILLIAMS,  Gettysburg,  S.  D.  - - 

JOHN  A.  KOCH,  Bowdel,  S.  D.  - - - - 

F.  W.  SCHIRBER,  Herreid,  S.  D.  - - - 

FRANK  R.  COCK,  Bellefourche,  S.  D.  - - 

T.  R.  STONER,  Lead,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

C.  D.  ERSKINE,  Sturgis,  S.  D.  - - - - 

W.  A.  GUILFOYLE,  Edgemont,  S.  D.  - - 

RAY  D.  WALKER,  Ft.  Pierre,  S.  D.  - - 

HARRY  E.  MOSHER,  Dupree,  S.  D.  - - 

FRED  J.  GRACE,  Gann  Valley  - - - - 

C.  T.  BATES,  Stamford,  S.  D.  - - - - 


President  of  the  United  States 

President  of  the  United  States 

Vice-President  of  the  United  States 

Representative  in  Congress,  1st  District 

Presidential  Elector 

Presidential  Elector 

Presidential  Elector 

Presidential  Elector 

Presidential  Elector 

National  Committeeman 

Party  State  Chairman 

United  States  Senator 

Governor 

Railroad  Commissioner,  3rd  District 

State  Senator,  9th  District 

State  Senator,  11th  District 

State  Senator,  12  th  District 

State  Senator,  12th  District 

State  Senator,  14th  District 

State  Senator,  14th  District 

State  Senator,  14th  District 

State  Senator,  15th  District 

State  Senator,  22nd  District 

State  Senator,  23rd  District 

State  Senator,  24th  District 

State  Senator,  25th  District 

State  Senator,  25th  District 

State  Senator,  26  th  District 

State  Senator,  27th  District 

State  Senator,  3 6th  District 

State  Senator,  3 6th  District  ' 

State  Senator,  37th  District 
State  Senator,  38th  District 
Stale  Senator,  39th  District 
Stale  Senator,  39th  District 
State  Senator,  41st  District 
State  Senator,  42nd  District 
Representative,  54th  District 
Representative,  5 6th  District 
Representative,  58th  District 
Representative,  61st  District 


NOTE:  Some  of  the  names  above  given  may  not  appear  upon  the  Primary 
Ballot.  They  will  not  unless  there  is  opposition  within  the  party.  Where  there  is 
no  opposition  within  the  party,  the  candidate  automatically  becomes  the  nominee 
of  the  party  by  operation  of  the  present  Primary  Law. 


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FRANK  O.  LOWDEN,  of  Oregon,  Illinois. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PROTESTING  PARTY  PROPOSAL  FOR 
REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR  PRESIDENT 
OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


Was  born  in  Sunrise,  Minnesota,  January  26,  1861,  his  father  being  a village 
blacksmith.  At  the  age  of  seven  he  trudged  beside  a prairie  schooner  as  the  family 
moved  to  Hardin  County,  Iowa,  where  he  worked  on  a farm  and  taught  school  to 
earn  his  way  through  the  University  of  Iowa  from  which  he  graduated  at  20.  He 
worked  as  a clerk  in  Chicago  law  offices  for  $8.00  a week  while  he  read  law.  Grad- 
uated from  Union  College  of  Law  in  1887,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  built  up  a 
large  practice.  Was  elected  to  Congress  in  1906  from  Thirteenth  Illinois  district, 
retiring  voluntarily  after  three  terms.  Was  elected  Governor  of  Illinois  November 
7,  1916,  by  150,000  plurality.  Under  his  administration  125  boards  and  commis- 
sions were  abolished  and  the  state  tax  rate  reduced  the  past  two  years,  the  reduc- 
tion the  past  year  being  twenty  per  cent.  He  was  particularly  active  in  war  work. 
He  is  actively  interested  in  farming  and  stock  breeding  on  his  farms  in  Illinois, 
Arkansas  and  Texas.  Married  in  1896,  he  has  one  son,  three  daughters. 


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FRANK  O.  LOWDEN 

REPUBLICAN  PROTESTING  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATE  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

“The  return  to  an  efficient,  economical  and  business  administration  of  public 
affairs;  the  abolition  of  the  numerous  agencies  for  war  purposes,  which  have  been 
continued  at  an  enormous  expense  in  times  of  peace;  a protective  tariff  measured 
by  the  difference  in  cost  of  production  at  home  and  abroad;  a rigid  insistence  upon 
the  principle  of  government  by  all  the  people  and  not  by  any  class;  the  ratification 
of  the  peace  treaty  with  the  reservation's  substantially  as  proposed  by  the  Foreign  Re- 
lations Committee  of  the  Senate;  encouragement  of  agriculture,  and  recognition  of 
the  principle  that  it  is  and  must  remain  our  most  important  industry;  the  exclusion 
or  deportation  of  aliens  who  place  the  red  flag  or  any  other  flag  above  our  own.” 

i 

PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 

“Economy;  Efficiency;  Protection;  Peace;  Agriculture  Promoted;  One  Flag.” 


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FRANK  O.  LOWDEN 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  PROTESTING  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
PETITION  FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 
ARGUMENT 


Governor  Frank  O.  Lowden’s  platform,  as  Republican  presidential  candidate,  de- 
clares for  the  return  to  an  efficient,  economical  and  business  administration  of  na- 
tional public  affairs,  abolishment  of  wastefulness,  encouragement  of  agriculture  and 
for  international  friendship,  not  partnership.  As  Governor  of  Illinois  during  the  past 
three  years,  Frank  O.  Lpwden  has  demonstrated  that  he  believes  party  platform 
pledges  are  things  made  to  be  faithfully  kept,  having  had  enacted  into  laws  during 
his  administration  every  campaign  promise  made  by  him  when  candidate  for 
Governor  in  1916. 

He  abolished  125  useless  boards  and  commissions,  wiped  out  an  ancient  and 
cumbersome  State  Board  of  Equalization,  secured  the  adoption  of  a budget  system 
and  has  lowered  the  'state  tax  rate  the  past  two  years  in  succession,  reducing  it  20 
per  cent  in  1919  and  effecting  a tax  saving  to  the  people  of  $8,000,000.00  in  two 
years.  He  believes  the  same  measures  of  economy,  now  in  effect  in  Illinois,  should 
be  placed  in  force  on  a greater  scale  in  the  federal  government  at  Washington. 
Governor  Lowden,  being  a practical  farmer  and  stockman  himself,  is  in  sympathy 
with  and  knows  the  real  needs  of  this  great  industry  of  the  Northwest. 


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REPUBLICAN  PARTY 


REPUBLICAN  CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY 
PROTESTING  PARTY  PROPOSAL 

FRANK  O.  LOWDEN,  Oregon,  Illinois  -----  President  of  the  United  States 


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LEONARD  WOOD,  of  Chicago,  111. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


Was  born  at  Winchester,  New  Hampshire,  October  9,  1860.  Graduated  in 
medicine  from  Harvard  in  1884.  As  a physician  he  worked  among  the  poor  in  the 
city  in  which  he  lived. 

Wood  was  appointed  assistant  surgeon  in  the  army  in  1886.  For  his  services 
against  the  Apaches  he  received  the  Congressional  Medal  of  Honor. 

He  was  Colonel  of  Rough  Riders  and  was  made  Brigadier  General  in  1898  for 
services  at  Las  Guasimas  and  San  Juan. 

Wood  was  in  charge  of  civil  administration  of  Santiago  and  his  military  duties 
were  insignificant  compared  to  those  of  his  civil  administration.  He  cleaned  the 
city,  made  it  healthful,  installed  public  works  and  created  a modern  school  system. 

As  Governor-General  of  Cuba,  changed  an  oppressed  country  into  a liberal  and 
prosperous  republic.  In  the  Philippine  Islands,  he  performed  a similar  service.  Stu- 
dents of  history  say  Wood’s  states  building  stands  out  amongst  the  greatest  achieve- 
ments in  the  history  of  dependent  countries.  During  the  late  war  Wood’s  con- 
structive services  are  well  known.  His  work  largely  has  been  one  of  upbuilding 
civil  endeavor  coupled  with  army  service,  details  of  which  are  fresh  in  the  public 
mind. 


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PETER  NORBECK,  of  Redfield,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
UNITED  STATES  SENATOR 


Peter  Norbeck  was  born  in  Clay  County  about  fifty  years  ago,  of  Scandinavian 
ancestry,  and  has  always  lived  in  South  Dakota.  He  spent  the  first  twenty-five  years 
of  his  life  on  his  father’s  farm  and  since  then  has  devoted  his  time  to  the  artesian 
well  business  and  to  farming  operations. 

He  has  been  identified  with  the  state  government  for  many  years — first  as  State 
Senator;  followed  as  Lieutenant-'Governor,  and  is  now  serving  his  second  term  as 
Governor.  At  the  State  Proposal  Meeting  his  candidacy  for  the  office  of  United  States 
Senator  received  the  supporting  votes  of  every  county  in  the  state  except  Hutchinson. 
He  strongly  advocated  passage  of  the  Bank  Guaranty  Law;  State  Rural  Credits  Law; 
Soldiers’  Land  Settlement  Act  and  Workmen’s  Compensation  Law.  * He  is  a staunch 
supporter  of  state  aid  for  rural  schools;  of  compulsory  education  and  of  our  Amer- 
icanization law  which  provides  that  every  South  Dakotan  shall  learn  and  use  the 
language  of  Our  Country.  He  has  confidence  in  Republican  platform  pledges  for 
proper  soldiers’  bonus  and  approves  of  extension  of  state  credit  to  home-builders  in 
towns  and  country  alike,  in  order  that  laboring  men  may  everywhere  have  equal 
opportunity. 


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CHARLES  A.  CHRISTOPHERSON,  of  Sioux  Falls,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS,  FIRST  DISTRICT 


Charles  A.  Christopherson,  Republican,  of  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  was  born 
at  Amherst,  Minnesota,  lived  on  home  farm  and  pursued  the  industry  of  farming  un- 
til the  age  of  nineteen,  when  he  moved  to  South- Dakota;  admitted  to  bar  and  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law  in  the  city  of  Slioux  Falls;  served  as  a member  of  the 
board  of  education  of  the  city  of  Sioux  Falls  for  10  years,  and  for  three  years  of 
that  time  was  president  of  the  board;  in  1912  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of 
the  legislature;  re-elected  in  1914,  and  at  opening  of  the  fourteenth  session  of  the 
legislature  of  South  Dakota  was  chosen  speaker  of  the  House;  alsq^ served  as  speaker 
of  the  special  session  of  1916;  at  the  May  Primary  of  1918  he  "was  nominated  by 
the  Republicans  of  the  first  district  of  South  Dakota  as  their  nominee  for  Congress, 
and  at  the  general  election  of  that  year  he  was  elected  a Member  of  bhe  Sixty-sixth 
Congress;  at  State  Proposal-meeting  held  at  Pierre  was  proposed  as  the  Republican 
Candidate  for  Congress,  First  District,  South  Dakota;  is  married  and  has  one  child,' 
Charles,  Jr. 


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ROYAL  C.  JOHNSON,  of  Aberdeen,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS,  SECOND  DISTRICT 


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WILLIAM  WILLIAMSON,  of  Oacoma,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
REPRESENTATIVE  IN  CONGRESS,  THIRD  DISTRICT 


Born  in  Iowa,  William  Williamson,  at  six,  migrated  with  his  parents  to  Aurora 
County,  South  Dakota,  where  his  father  homesteaded  in  1882.  Upon  this  and  neigh- 
boring farms  he  worked  until  he  was  twenty-one.  From  seventeen  on  taught  school 
during  four  winters,  and  later,  became  a pioneer  homesteader  in  Lyman  County. 
Entering  our  State  University,  earned  his  way  through,  won  a place  on  the  intercol- 
legiate debating  teams,  and  was  chosen  class  orator  at  graduation  in  1903.  Com- 
pleting his  law  course  1905,  won  the  Sterling  prize  for  writing  best  thesis. 

Judge  Williamson  enjoyed  an  extensive  practice,  and  was  three  times  elected 
state’s  attorney  of  Lyman  County.  Secured  some  forty  convictions  during  his  first 
two  terms,  and  put  an  end  to  organized  stock  rustling  in  his  county.  In  1911  he  re- 
signed to  become  circuit  judge,  to  which  position  he  lias  been  elected  twice  since. 
His  ability  and  fairness  have  given  him  high  rank  as  a jurist. 

The  Judge  is  a close  student  of  public  questions  and  of  our  natural  resources. 
Is  a director  in  various  business  enterprises;  interested  in  farming,  and  pursues 
horticulture  as  a hobby.  Family  consists  of  wife  and  three  orphaned  children. 


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W.  H.  McMASTER,  of  Yankton,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
GOVERNOR 


Born  on  farm  near  Ticonic,  Iowa,  1 877.  At  age  of  three  he  lost  his  father, 
family  then  moving  to  Sioux  City.  At  age  of  ten  he  became  a wage-earner  as  news- 
boy, delivering  papers  for  Tribune  and  Journal,  earning  sixty  cents  per  day.  This 
work  necessitated  arising  at  three  A.  M.  At  age  of  fifteen  was  a street  car  conductor. 
At  age  of  seventeen  was  bereft  of  home  by  death  of  mother.  Graduated  from  Sioux 
City  High  School  and  Beloit  College,  Beloit,  Wis.  Located  at  Gayville,  S.  D.,  1901, 
engaging  in  banking.  Served  three  terms  in  Legislature  and  is  now  serving  second 
term  as  Lieutenant-Governor.  During  ten  years  legislative  service,  fathered  Bank 
Guaranty  law.  Absentee  Voters  law,  an  act  to  recover  $100,000  Back  Taxes  from  Ex- 
press Companies,  a law  compelling  Fire  Insurance  Companies  to  Pay  Ten  Per  Cent 
Bonus  on  Failure  to  Settle  in  Sixty  Days,  was  active  in  behalf  of  Rural  Credits,  State 
Hail  Insurance,  Mothers’  Pension,  Good  Roads  and  prominently  identified  with  all 
progressive  legislation.  As  indicated  by  his  legislative  record,  if  elected  Governor, 
he  may  be  depended  upon  for  sane,  progressive  policies  in  the  interest  of  the  whole 
people. 


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C.  A.  BURKHART,  of  Dixon,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
SECRETARY  OF  STATE 


Born  in  Linn  County,  Iowa.  Moved  to  Story  County,  Iowa,  with  parents  1867, 
living  on  farm  until  nineteen  years  of  age,  attending  common  school  during  winter. 
Was  a student  at  Valparaiso  University.  Located  at  Zearing,  Iowa,  and  engaged  in 
the  lumber  business  for  twenty  years.  Came  to  South  Dakota  in  1905,  taking  a 
homestead  in  Gregory  County,  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising  and  still  has 
large  interests  there.  Elected  to  the  Lower  House  in  1914,  re-elected  in  1916. 
Was  elected  Secretary  of  State  in  1918,  and  is  now  serving  first  term. 


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BYRON  S.  PAYNE,  of  Pierre,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
ATTORNEY  GENERAL 


Byron  S.  Payne,  present  Attorney  General,  was  proposed  for  a second  term  at 
the  State  Proposal  Meeting  of  the  Republican  Party;  was  born  and  raised  on  farm 
near  Vermillion,  South  Dakota;  attended  country  school,  preparatory  and  collegiate 
departments  of  the  State  University,  graduating  in  1897;  taught  in  schools  at  Cen- 
terville, Hurley  and  Watertown;  studied  law.  University  of  Minnesota,  graduating 
in  1904.  Has  practiced  at  Pierre  since  1905  as  member  firm  of  Sutherland  & Payne; 
City  Attorney  of  Pierre  five  years;  appointed  Assistant  Attorney  General  1915,  served 
four  years;  nominated  for  Attorney  General  in  Republican  primary,  1918,  from  field 
of  five  candidates  and  elected;  has  taken  part  in  all  the  important  litigation  affecting 
the  State  during  the  past  five  years,  such  as  that  relating  to  “Exchange  of  School 
Lands,”  which  resulted  in  the  State  securing  sixty  thousand  acres  of  school  land, 
contested  inheritance  tax  matters,  as  with  the  Deering  Estate,  which  paid  eighty-five 
thousand  dollars  to  the  State,  taxation  of  express  companies,  constitutionality  of 
the  “Blue  Sky”  and  Rural  Credits  laws,  etc.;  resides  at  Capital  and  gives  personal 
attention  to  business  of  Attorney  General’s  office. 


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JAY  REEVES,  of  Groton, 


S. 


D. 


‘ CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
STATE  AUDITOR 


Born  at  Groton,  Brown  County,  S.  D.,  May  25,  1886,  attended  Groton  Schools, 
graduating  in  spring  of  1903.  Learned  printing  trade  and  followed  it  eleven  years, 
part  of  the  time  while  attending  school.  Attended  University  of  Minnesota,  in  sec- 
ond year  there  taking  up  course  in  law.  Graduated  from  Minnesota  College  of  Law 
and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  State  Courts  of  Minnesota  1914.  Returned  to 
Groton  in  fall  of  that  year  and  took  uji  editorial  work  of  “Groton  Independent,” 
which  publication  he  still  owns  and  publishes.  Admitted  to  practice  law  in  South 
Dakota  1915.  Was  elected  to  State  Senate  in  1916,  serving  throughout  fifteenth 
Legislative  Session.  Was  elected  to  office  of  State  Auditor  in  1918  and  is  at  present 
serving  first  term.  Was  unanimously  proposed  as  Majority  Candidate  for  the  office 
at  Republican  Proposal  Meeting  in  December  last  past.  Has  no  opposition  in  the 
coming  Primary  and  name  will  therefore  not  appear  on  the  ballot.  Bids  for  the 
support  of  the  voters  for  a second  term  at  the  general  election  next  November,  on  the 
record  w<hich  has  been  made  during  his  first  Administration. 


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WILLIAM  S.  O’BRIEN,  of  Lead,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
STATE  TREASURER 


More  familiarly  known  as  “Billie”  O’Brien,  present  Deputy  State  Treasurer — 
was  born  April  6,  1877,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  Moved  to  the  Black  Hills  in  1899  and 
remained  there  until  his  appointment  to  his  present  position,  January,  1913.  Under 
the  Richards  Primary  Law,  having  received  the  majority  nomination,  his  name  will 
not  appear  on  the  ticket  in  the  March  primaries.  Having  no  party  opposition,  auto- 
matically he  becomes  the  Republican  Candidate  for  State  Treasurer  in  the  fall 
election. 


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N.  E.  KNIGHT,  of  Thomas,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
COMMISSIONER  OF  SCHOOL  AND  PUBLIC  LANDS 


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FRED  L.  SHAW,  of  Huron,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION 


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i JOHN  W.  RAISH,  of  Aberdeen,  S.  D. 


CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
RAILROAD  COMMISSIONER,  SECOND  DISTRICT 


Born  in  Union  County,  Dakota  Territory,  May  25,  1877;  entered  the  Preparatory 
Department  of  the  State  University  of  South  Dakota  in  1896;  from  1902  to  1904, 
was  engaged  in  the  newspaper  business  at  Pierre,  as  an  editor  and  publisher  of  the 
Pierre  Free  Press;  returned  to  the  State  University  in  1904,  graduating  from  the 
College  of  Arts  and  Sciences  in  1905  and  from  the  College  of  Law  in  1907;  admitted 
to  practice  in  the  State  Supreme  Court,  the  Federal  District  Court  and  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  and  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law 
in  South  Dakota  for  the  past  12  years;  served  two  years  as  City  Attorney  of  Belle 
Fourche  and  two  years  as  State’s  Attorney  of  Butte  County;  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Norbeck,  May  1,  1919,  as  a member  of  the  State  Board  of  Railroad  Commis- 
sioners, to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Hon.  P.  W.  Dougherty;  was 
proposed  by  the  State  Proposal-meeting  of  the  Republican  party  as  its  candidate  for 
Railroad  Commissioner  from  the  Second  District. 


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DAWES  E.  BRISBINE,  of  Faith,  S.  D. 

CANDIDATE  PROPOSED  BY  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL 
FOR  REPUBLICAN  NOMINATION  FOR 
RAILROAD  COMMISSIONER,  THIRD  DISTRICT 


Dawes  E.  Brisbine,  Republican,  of  Faith,  Meade  County,  is  a native  of  South 
Dakota,  born  and  raised  in  Yankton,  to  which  place  his  family  came  at  the  close  of 
the  Civil  War.  After  graduating  from  the  State  University,  he  took  a homestead  in 
Dewey  County.  He  was  there  elected  and  served  as  state’s  attorney.  Later  he  re- 
moved to  Faith,  w^here  he  has  continued  in  the  practice  of  law.  Admitted  to  practice 
in  the  State  and  Federal  Courts  and  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  Age 
33.  Married  Mildred  Anderson  in  1915.  They  have  one  child. 

Mr.  Brisbine  enlisted  as  a private  in  the  infantry  and  saw  active  service.  Gov- 
ernor Norbeck  appointed  him,  while  still  in  France,  to  fill  the  vacancy  on  the  State 
Board  of  Railroad  Commissioners  caused  by  the  resignation  of  the  commissioner 
from  west  of  the  river.  He  has  served  on  the  board  since  the  last  of  March,  1919, 
and  was  unanimously  proposed  at  the  Republican  Proposal  Meeting  in  Pierre. 

He  seeks  election  on  the  principle  that  there  must  be  a very  material  improve- 
ment in  the  service  rendered  by  all  public  utilities  and  especially  in  the  transporta- 
tion of  live  stock  and  grain. 


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. PLATFORM,  PRINCIPLES  AND  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE  OF  THE 
y REPUBLICAN  REPRESENTATIVE  STATE  PROPOSAL  COMMITTEE 

PLANK  I. 

We,  the  duly  elected  Republican  Proposalmen,  in  state  convention  assembled, 
recognizing  the  vital  questions,  both  state  and  national,  which  are  being  considered 
by  and  are  necessary  for  the  happiness  and  prosperity  of  the  people,  reaffirm  our 
fidelity  to  the  principles  of  the  Republican  Party,  a party  that  the  nation’s  history 
of  over  half  a century  has  demonstrated  as  the  only  party  capable  of  giving  to  our 
nation  wise,  safe  and  economical  administration  of  public  affairs. 

PLANK  II. 

We  condemn  the  democratic  administration  for  its  extreme  partisanship,  ex- 
travagance and  wastefulness  in  the  recent  War,  and  commend  the  strict  investigation 
of  the  conduct  and  expenses  of  the  War,  without  regard  to  personal  or  political  con- 
sideration, now  being  conducted  by  a Republican  Congress  in  the  interest  of  honesty 
and  economy  in  national  business,  and  to  restore  order  in  national  affairs  in  the 
present  reconstruction  period. 


PLANK  III. 

The  Republican  Party  without  partisanship  patriotically  sustained  every  action 
advanced  for  the  conduct  of  the  War  by  the  Democratic  administration  and  asserts 
its  right  to  participate  in  every  movement,  national  or  international,  in  settling  terms 
of  peace  and  in  the  work  of  reconstruction  in  such  manner  as  to  preserve  our 
integrity,  future  peace  and  prosperity.  The  diplomatic  outcome  of  the  great  conflict 
has  been  a League  of  Nations  in  the  formation  of  which  the  United  States  should 
have  become  a major  factor.  While  the  pOople,  as  a whole,  are  equally  interested 
in  this  great  question,  the  Democratic  President,  by  his  conduct  and  action,  has 
treated  it  as  a party,  and  almost  a personal  issue,  but  the  public  will  ever  regard 
^ it  as  a national  issue,  far  transcending  in  importance  the  interests  of  any  party. 
All  are  agreed  that  this  nation  should  do  everything  in  its  power  to  secure  and 
perpetuate  World  Peace,  and  to  substitute  forever  for  the  horrors  and  the  miseries 
occasioned  by  warfare,  a just  and  permanent  method  of  'settling  with  honor  and 
certainty  the  inevitable  disputes  between  nations  and  peoples,  and  the  sooner  a final 
disposition  of  the  problem  is  made  the  better  it  will  be  for  the  peoples  of  the  world. 
We,  therefore,  favor  ratification  of  the  treaty  of  peace  without  amendment  but  with 
such  reservations  as  will  safeguard  the  sovereignty  of  the  nations,  the  control  of  its 
own  domestic  affairs  and  maintenance  of  its  national  policies  and  that  the  United 
States  shall  be  sole  interpreter  of  the  Monroe  Doctrine. 

PLANK  IV. 

We  favor  a national  Tariff  Commission  composed  of  men  of  special  qualifica- 
tions chosen  irrespective  of  political  affiliations  so  as  to  place  this  great  question 
on  a sound  business  and  scientific  basis. 

PLANK  V. 

We  declare  our  faith  in  the  American  form  of  government  and  the  principles 
upon  which  it  rests.  We  shall  resist  to  the  utmost  all  efforts  to  change  our  rep- 
resentative republic  into  any  class  autocracy.  This  nation  must  not  be  ruled  by 
capital;  it  should  not  be  ruled  by  labor.  All  must  be  subject  to  the  rule  of  the 
people.  The  Government  must  be  supreme.  The  cowardly  assassination  of  returned 
soldier  boys;  the  coal  shortage  occasioned  by  the  untimely  strike  at  the  beginning 
of  winter;  the  absurd  demands  being  made  by  I.  W.  W.’s  and  revolutionary  com- 
munism; the  exhorbitant  profits  taken  by  coal  operators;  and  the  refusal  of  Mexico 


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to  release  our  imprisoned  American  consul;  incidents  of  a day’s  reading,  emphasize 
the  need  for  a strong  government  at  Washington  and  a firm  executive  to  protect  our  ^ 
citizenship  in  the  pursuit  of  life,  liberty  and  happiness,  inalienable  rights  declared 
for  by  our  forefathers.  We  have  had  more  than  enough  of  appeals  to  our  President 
by  classes  and  too  little  firmness  to  protect  the  interests  of  the  masses.  No  com- 
promise must  be  made  with  anarchists.  We  welcome,  however,  the  sons  of  every 
land  who  will  co-operate  with  us,  support  our  institutions  and  better  our  civiliza- 
tion, but  shall  insist  upon  unqualified  loyalty  to  the  land  of  their  adoption  and  their 
allegiance  to  but  one  country  and  but  one  fiag,  THAT  country,  America,  and  that 
fiag,  the  Stars  and  Stripes. 


PLANK  VI. 

No  Americanization  of  our  institutions  is  complete  without  the  aid  of  such 
education  as  will  provide  an  intelligent  electorate.  We,  therefore,  recommend  that 
newly  arrived  immigrants  shall  at  once  be  taught  American  ideas  of  liberty,  con- 
stitution and  laws,  and  we  recommend  that  the  national  Government  assume  a part 
of  the  obligations  and  expenses  to  accomplish  this  purpose.  We  insist  that  in  all 
the  schools  of  the  land  the  English  language  shall,  as  already  provided  for  by  law 
in  South  Dakota,  be  the  one  vehicle  of  instruction  without  excluding  the  study  of 
other  languages,  necessary  to  communication  with  our  international  neighbors  or 
as  a cultural  accomplishment,  but  it  must  ever  be  remembered  inability  to  speak 
and  understand  the  English  tongue  alone  makes  impossible  a homogeneous  public 
opinion  and  an  understanding  of  the  country’s  problems,  and  institutions  necessary 
to  the  wise  exercise  of  the  franchise  in  the  Administration  of  a Republican  form  of 
Government. 


PLANK  VII. 

We  are  justly  proud  of  the  young  men  of  South  Dakota,  wiho  risked  their  all  in 
giving  ready,  loyal  response  to  the  call  of  the  nation  to  arms,  nor  are  we  unmindful 
of  the  sacrifice  made  by  the  homes  from  which  they  sprung.  We  glory  in  their 
achievements  on  the  field  of  battle.  They  won  the  applause  and  plaudits  of  the 
world.  Whenever  and  wherever  our  fiag  floated  above  them  as  they  advanced  to  the 
conflict,  they,  by  their  daring  and  self-sacrifice  made  it  an  emblem  of  victory. 

Therefore,  we  recommend  that  the  next  Legislature  provide  by  law  for  a gen- 
erous compensation  to  these  young  soldiers,  if  an  appropriation  for  such  purpose 
can  constitutionally  be  made;  but  if  it  should  be  held  that  such  law  would  be  uncon- 
stitutional, then  we  pledge  the  Republican  Party  of  this  State  to  submit  an  amend- 
ment to  the  constitution  to  make  possible  the  accomplishment  of  this  worthy  purpose. 


PLANK  VIII. 

Upon  the  return  of  the  lines  of  transportation  and  communication  to  the  original 
owners,  we  demand  that  the  police  powers  of  the  State  over  rates,  service  and 
affairs  and  property  of  common  carriers  and  public  utilities  be  fully  restored  and 
safe-guarded  by  measures  preserving  and  strengthening  and  enlarging  the  powers 
of  the  State  Commissions  and  of  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission.  We  believe 
experience  has  demonstrated  the  wisdom  of  the  dual  plan  of  regulation  of  public 
•service  corporations  and  that  matters  of  local  concern  can  be  more  wisely  ad- 
ministered by  the  States  while  those  of  National  importance  must  be  administered 
by  Federal  authority. 

Enormous  losses  have  been  sustained  by  shippers,  particularly  of  livestock  and 
grains,  because  of  the  claimed  shortage  of  cars.  The  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission should  be  vested  with  power  to  compel  the  carriers  to  construct  and  put 
into  operation  additional  cars  and  locomotives  to  meet  the  shippers’  requirements. 
We  insist  upon  a more  comprehensive  control  of  common  carriers  and  upon  a prompt 
and  rigorous  enforcement  of  the  laws  and  regulations  relating  thereto. 


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PLANK  IX. 

Women,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  our  state,  participate  in  our  delibera- 
tions. We  heartily  welcome  them  to  the  fullest  co-operation  and  we  indorse  their 
suggestion  as  presented  at  the  State  Federation  of  Women  Clubs  and  the  League 
of  Women  voters  in  indorsing  the  Kenyon  Bill  which  provides  for  control  by  license 
system  of  the  ever  increasing  monopoly  of  food  products  by  the  packers. 

PLANK  X. 

We  commend  the  Governor  for  having  called  a special  session  of  the  Legislature 
to  ratify  the  amendment  to  the  constitution  of  the  United  States  extending  equal 
suffrage  to  the  women  of  all  the  states. 

PLANK  XI. 

Ex-President  Roosevelt,  in  a statement  published  in  1918  said:  “Under  the 
lead  of  men  like  Governor  Norbeck,  South  Dakota,  during  the  last  ten  years,  has 
done  more  for  genuine  progressive  legislation  than  any  other  state  in  the  Union. 
He  had  reference  to  prohibition,  the  Rural  Credit  Law,  the  Bank  Guaranty  Law, 
Anti-Lobby  Law,  the  Workmen’s  Compensation  Law;  and  the  State  Marketing  De- 
partment, created  at  the  request  of  the  farmers  organizations  of  the  State.  This 
department  has  prevented  discriminations  and  unfair  dealing  in  farm  products. 
Many  other  laws  have  since  been  enacted,  each  of  which  has  been  tested  and  found 
to  be  practical  and  beneficial,  prominent  among  which  is  equal  suffrage. 

The  last  Republican  State  Platform  advocated  the  adoption  of  progressive 
amendments  to  the  State  Constitution.  This  was  done  in  order  that  the  State  might 
take  such  forward  steps  in  legislation  as  from  time  to  time  would  be  deemed  ad- 
visable. The  amendments  were  adopted;  many  state  activities  became  possible. 
Among  others  were: 

A State  Highway  building  program. 

A law  providing  aid  for  returned  soldiers  in  securing  farm  homes. 

Cheaper  hail  insurance  for  farmers. 

Providing  for  Hydro-Electric  survey  of  our  water  powers. 

And  another  amendment  permitting  our  state  to  engage  in  state  industries. 

The  Legislature  acted  wisely,  and  in  accord  with  the  spirit  of  the  last  party 
platform,  which  read  in  part  as  follows: 

“We  also  commend  the  legislature  for  providing  by  law  for  a committee  to 
investigate  and  recommend  the  most  practical  plan  to  carry  out  the  purpose  of  these 
amendments.  The  same  prudence  should  be  used  in  investigating  the  state  funds  as 
that  of  private  money.  The  state  has  no  money  except  as  it  collects  it  from  the  tax- 
payers.” 

Provisions  are  being  made  for  the  establishment  of  a cement  factory,  in  order 
that  cheaper  building  material  may  be  secured,  both  for  the  construction  of  build- 
ings and  hard  surface  roads, — that  we  may  no  longer  be  oppressed  with  high  prices 
and  long  haul  transportation  of  a commodity  so  necessary  to  our  development. 

The  state  has  been  unable  to  locate  coal  mines  on  a line  of  railroad,  but  has 
been  successful  in  locating  them  at  a point  six  miles  therefrom.  It  may  be  necessary 
to  build  a spur  track  and  connections  from  the  mines  to  the  main  line  of  railroad, 
but,  notwithstanding  the  delays  necessarily  caused  by  the  attempt  to  locate  mines  on 
the  line  of  railroad  and  the  difficulty  in  securing  labor  and  materials  necessary  for 
the  construction  of  a spur  track,  we  are  assured  that  the  mines  will  soon  be  opened 
up  and  developed  by  the  state.  With  the  development  of  transportation  facilities 
into  the  extensive  coal  fields,  it  will  have  access  to  mines  sufficient  to  supply  the  peo- 
ple in  general  with  cheap  fuel. 

We  commend  the  report  of  the  special  investigating  committee  that  had  under 
consideration  the  advisability  of  the  state  going  into  the  packing  house,  terminal 
elevator  and  milling  business.  We  endorse  the  action  of  the  last  legislature  In  its 
decision  to  await  the  results  of  the  experiment  now  being  undertaken  by  the  State 
of  North  Dakota. 


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The  state,  through  the  Rural  Credits  Department,  has  supplied  cheap  money  for 
the  purchase  and  development  of  farms  to  thousands  of  young  men,  on  easy  terms, 
to  the  amount  of  $20,000,000.00. 

One  of  the  necessary  elements  contributing  to  the  happiness  of  a people  is  the 
owning  of  their  own  homes,  and  we  recommend  the  enactment  of  laws  to  encourage 
home  building,  through  th,e  extensions  of  credit  to  our  returned  soldiers  and  other 
civilians,  in  cities  and  towns,  thus  accomplishing  for  the  residents  of  our  cities  and 
towns  what  our  rural  credit  law  has  done  for  our  farmers. 

PLANK  XII. 

Through  the  united  efforts  of  the  farmers  of  the  northwest,  there  was  enacted 
in  1916,  by  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  the  Grain  Standards  Act,  providing 
for  the  grading  and  inspection  of  grains  and  seeds  transported  in  inter-state  com- 
merce. Inasmuch  as  there  is  no  ultimate  market  in  South  Dakota  for  the  sale  of 
grains  and  seeds  and  they  must  be  transported  in  interstate  commerce  to  such 
ultimate  markets  and  must  be  graded  and  sold  under  the  inspection  rules  and 
grades  established  by  the  Department  of  Agriculture  under  the  Federal  Grain 
Standards  Act,  and  State  of  South  Dakota  has  no  jurisdiction  over  commodities 
shipped  in  interstate  commerce,  but,  on  the  contrary,  exclusive  jurisdiction  is  vested 
in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States: 

Therefore,  we  pledge  the  Republican  Party  of  this  State,  through  its  repre- 
sentatives in  Congress,  to  urge  such  Federal  action  as  will  provide  more  just  and 
equitable  grades,  prohibit  speculation,  profiteering  and  other  existing  evils,  to  the 
end  that  the  farmers  of  this  state  may  receive  the  high  market  value  and  fair,  just 
and  equitable  grades  for  their  grains  and  farm  products  to  which  they  are  justly 
entitled.  Much  has  been  accomplished  in  this  direction  by  our  Board  of  Railroad 
Commissioners  and  our  Marketing  Department,  and  the  farmers  co-operative  or- 
ganizations, and  we  recommend  their  continued  efforts  in  this  behalf. 

PLANK  XIII. 

The  lakes  and  rivers  of  the  United  States  are  the  natural  arteries  of  this 
continent.  We  demand  that  they  shall  be  opened  to  traffic  as  indispensible  parts  of 
a great  nation-wide  economical  system  of  transportation,  thus  enabling  the  whole 
interior  of  the  United  States  to  share  with  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  in  wider  markets 
and  cheaper  transportation  rates.  We  commend  our  sister  state  of  Minnesota  in  her 
endeavors  to  secure  co-operation  of  the  United  States  with  the  Canadian  government 
as  will  result  in  the  enlargement  of  canals  and  locks  so  that  foreign  commerce  can 
reach  the  center  of  the  continent  by  way  of  the  Great  Lakes  and  consider  it  of  equal 
importance  with  the  development  of  navigation  by  way  of  the  Mississippi  and 
Missouri  Rivers  and  their  tributaries  throughout  the  great  valleys  of  these  streams. 

We  favor  the  enactment  of  a federal  law  compelling  the  carriers  to  establish 
through  routes  and  just  and  reasonable  joint  rates  for  rail  and  water  transportation, 
without  discrimination,  and  to  interchange  traffic  with  water  lines. 

PLANK  XIV. 

Publicity  of  cost  of  production,  manufacturing  and  distribution  is  more  and 
more  engaging  the  attention  of  farmers,  manufacturers  and  consumers.  Much  of 
the  social,  economic  and  industrial  unrest  of  the  country  is  due  to  a want  of  exact 
knowledge  and  a belief  that  the  people  are  not  receiving  a square  deal  in  the  prep- 
aration and  distribution  of  foodstuffs  and  other  necessities  of  life.  The  wage  earner 
believes  that  he  is  not  receiving  a just  reward  for  his  services;  the  farmer  that  he 
is  not  receiving  the  same  proportionate  price  for  his  produce  that  the  manufacturer 
and  distributor  receives  in  the  process  of  passing  the  same  produce  on  to  the  con- 
sumer. This  is  due  in  large  part  to  the  lack  of  knowledge  that  surrounds  present 
methods  of  production  and  distribution.  We,  therefore,  demand  that  the  Farm 
Management  Bureau  under  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  be  instructed  to  complete 


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the  work  already  begun  to  determine  the  cost  of  production  on  the  farm,  and  that 
the  report  now  being  withheld  be  completed  and  published,  and  that  Congress  in 
addition  thereto  by  proper  law  promptly  provide  for  a full  survey  of  the  cost  of  the 
manufacture  and  distribution  of  the  necessities  of  life. 

PLANK  XV. 

We  pledge  the  Republican  Party  to  the  strict  enforcement  of  the  prohibition, 
laws,  both  state  and  national. 


PLANK  XVI. 

We  favor  the  amendment  of  our  Mothers  Pension  Law  so  as  to  provide  a more 
liberal  allowance  and  a larger  freedom  to  county  authorities  in  levying  taxes  to  pro- 
vide the  funds  for  that  purpose. 


PLANK  XVII. 

America  is  a land  of  equality  and  opportunity.  The  Republican  Party  has 
favored  the  humanizing  of  production  in  shortened  hours  of  labor,  increase  in  wages, 
workman’s  compensation  laws  for  injuries  and  better  sanitary  and  protective  con- 
ditions that  tend  to  make  labor  safe  and  guard  against  occupational  disease.  The 
labor  problem  is  a human  problem  and  the  man  who  works  with  his  hands,  the  man 
who  works  with  his  head  and  the  man  who  works  with  his  savings  and  just  ac- 
cumulations, are  the  three  different  elements  that  enter  into  it.  Wages  must  come 
out  of  production.  The  greater  the  production  the  higher  the  possible  wage,  and 
the  three  factors  of  production  should  co-operate  toward  greater  efficiency  and 
greater  output.  The  purchasing  power  of  the  dollar  should  be  given  consideration 
in  fixing  the  amount  of  the  wages. 

PLANK  XVIII. 

Every  boy  and  girl  in  South  Dakota  is  entitled  to  at  least  a good,  common  school 
education.  We  commend  the  progress  made  in  the  cause  of  education  at  the  1919 
session  of  the  Legislature  of  this  state  and  pledge  the  Republican  Party  to  the  en- 
actments of  such  further  and  additional  legislation  as  may  be  found  in  the  light 
of  experience  necessary  to  place  the  educational  system  of  this  state  upon  the  highest 
possible  basis;  and  particularly  to  the  strengthening  and  enforcement  of  our  com- 
pulsory educational  laws  by  the  state. 

PLANK  XIX. 

We  believe  that  the  common  carriers  engaged  in  the  transportation  of  livestock 
should  own  and  operate  all  of  the  facilities  for  the  loading,  unloading,  feeding  and 
watering  in  transit  and  delivery  at  ultimate  markets,  including  stockyards  and  fa- 
cilitiss  at  ultimate  markets,  and  that  the  through  rate  from  point  of  origin  to  des- 
tination should  include  a fair,  just  and  reasonable  rate  for  these  services,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  transportation  charge. 


PLANK  XX. 

We  recommend  the  separation  of  the  boys  and  girls  in  the  State  Industrial 
School  at  Plankinton  and  urge  the  next  legislature  to  take  proper  steps  looking  to- 
ward such  legislation. 

PLANK  XXI. 

We  recommend  to  the  consideration  of  the  next  legislature  the  desirability  of 
establishing  a reformatory  for  convicts,  now  sent  to  the  penitentiary,  between  the 
ages  of  eighteen  and  twenty-five,  not  known  to  have  been  previously  sentenced  to 


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any  penitentiary  or  state  prison,  and  that  the  inmates  of  such  institution  be  taught 
some  trade  or  occupation  by  which  they  can  obtain  a livelihood  upon  their  discharge. 
The  purpose  of  such  reformatory  is  to  preserve  young,  first  offenders  from  becoming 
confirmed  criminals  and  to  this  end  to  subject  them,  while  in  custody,  to  such 
remedial  treatment,  training  and  instruction,  and  provide  such  incentive  as  is  con- 
ducive to'  the  making  of  honest,  industrious,  respectable  citizens. 

And  that  the  following  well  defined  and  definite  principle  for  a public  policy  is 
selected  as  the  paramount  issue: 


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NATIONAL  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 
“Americanism” 

STATE  PARAMOUNT  ISSUE 
“Republicanism” 

SUMMARY  OF  PRINCIPLES 

NATIONAL 

Patriotism,  Progress,  Prosperity,  Honesty,  Economy,  Law  and  Order. 


STATE 

Patriotism,  Progress,  Prosperity,  Honesty,  Economy,  Law  and  Order. 


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ARGUMENT 

The  platform  adopted  by  the  Republican  Party  in  Convention  assembled  found 
on  another  page  is  the  basis  of  this  argument.  It  was  adopted  plank  by  plank  after 
full  discussion  and  is  worthy  thoughtful  consideration 

Broadly  speaking  the  platform  is  along  the  lines  of  the  Roosevelt  principles  and 
a continuation  of  policies  followed  by  the  Republican  Party  and  written  into  our 
statutes  to  such  an  extent  that  Colonel  Roosevelt  in  1918  said,  “South  Dakota  during 
the  last  ten  years  has  done  more  for  genuine  progressive  legislation  than  any  other 
state  in  the  Union.”  We  contend  for  the  continuation  of  those  principles  and  poli- 
cies by  the  Republican  Party;  that  it  maintain  its  high  ideals,  its  patriotic  purposes, 
its  aim  to  secure  the  greatest  happiness  and  prosperity  among  the  people;  honesty 
and  economy  in  administration  and  to  so  execute  law  and  preserve  order  that  every- 
one shall  be  fully  protected  in  his  constitutional  rights. 

To  convert  party  principles  into  terms  of  prosperity,  equal  rights  and  equal  op- 
portunity to  all  requires  a comprehensive  program,  openness  of  mind  and  honesty 
purpose  to  meet  every  public  question  on  its  merits.  Socialists,  Bolshevists, 
Anarchists  and  others  present  as  a cure-all  for  governmental  evils  the  nationaliz- 
ing of  all  industries.  Communism,  or  some  other  Ism,  but  the  proffered  cure  is  worse 
than  the  evil  complained  of.  Such  schemes  are  unsound;  they  promise  great  things 
but  fail  to  count  the  cost.  This  platform  has  been  drawn  on  sane  lines,  expressing 
policies  which  are  fitted  to  bring  the  greatest  prosperity  to  all  without  burdening 
people  with  unnecessary  debt  or  excessive  taxation. 

There  are  those  who  would  plunge  the  state  into  all  kinds  of  mercantile,  in- 
dustrial and  agricultural  enterprises.  They  fail  to  distinguish  between  enterprises 
which  can  be  successfully  carried  on  by  a state  and  those  which  can  be  ipore  suc- 
cessfully carried  on  by  individual  enterprise.  The  time  will  never  come  when  the 
state  can  operate  the  farms  of  the  state  as  successfully  as  the  farmers  themselves. 
The  platform  steers  clear  of  the  dangerous  shoals  of  Socialism  and  Bolshevism. 


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We  are  entering  upon  a presidential  campaign  and  would  fall  far  short  o-f  the 
measure  of  true  patriotism  were  we  not  to  consider  both  national  and  state  affairs. 
The  state  is  an  integral  part  of  the  nation.  Therefore,  we,  as  a party  and  people, 
are  vitally  interested  in  perpetuating  world  peace  and  adopting  a permanent  method 
of  settling  disputes  between  nations  without  'the  horrors  of  war.  We  are  entering 
upon  a reconstruction  period.  World  conditions  are  unusual  and  abnormal.  There 
is  need  to  guard  against  the  dumping  into  our  country  of  vast  quantities  of  products 
produced  by  peoples  seeking  a market  at  any  price.  There  should  be  a tariff  com- 
mission, qualified  to  place  this  great  question  on  a scientific  basis  by  adjusting  rates 
as  occasion  may  require  to  protect  our  farmers  and  manufacturers.  Such  tariff  is  de- 
manded at  the  present  time  to  protect  our  corn  raisers' from  cheap  importation  from 
South  America.  We  are  vitally  concerned  with  the  complete  Americanizing  of  our 
institutions  and  the  proper  education  of  our  boys  and  girls  and  of  the  newly  ar- 
rived immigrant. 

We  stand  unalterably  for  free  speech  and  free  press  but  not  for  license  to 
trample  the  American  Flag  or  advocate  sabotage,  destruction  of  life,  property  or 
government.  ' 

We  pledge  a bonus  to  returned  soldiers  as  an  expression  of  our  deep  appre- 
ciation of  their  sacrifices. 

We,  as  a National  Republican  Party,  insist  upon  adequate  legislation  and  ad- 
ministration on  national  matters  vital  to  the  state  but  not  within  state  control:  as 
for  example,  that  facilities  for  loading  and  unloading,  feeding  and  watering  stock 
in  transit,  including  stockyards  and  other  facilities  at  ultimate  markets,  be  furnished 
by  common  carriers;  that  the  government  construct  and  open  to  traffic  a great 
nation-wide  system  of  transportation  by  water,  that  the  interior  of  our  country  may 
have  cheaper  transportation;  and  that  there  be  more  adequate  federal  legislation 
and  administration  in  grading  and  inspection  of  grains  and  seeds,  prohibiting  specu- 
lation, profiteering  and  other  existing  evils.  We  insist  upon  the  enactment  of  federal 
laws  establishing  equitable  joint  rates  for  rail  and  water  transportation,  cold  stor- 
age plants,  elevators,  ample  storage  at  terminal  points,  as  a part — if  need  be — of 
the  common  carrier  system,  but  all  under  strict  public  control  and  regulation. 


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The  publicity  provided  in  the  platform  will  when  worked  out  prove  the  farmer 
entitled  to  higher  prices  for  his  products  in  comparison  with  cost  of  goods  which 
he  purchases. 

The  platform  stands  for  strict  enforcement  of  the  prohibition  law,  for  a more 
liberal  mother’s  pension  law;  for  fair  treatment  of  labor  and  capital,  a square  deal 
for  all  and  a wise  and  progressive  program  for  development  of  the  industrial  ac- 
tivities of  the  state. 


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REPUBLICAN  REPRESENTATIVE  PARTY  PROPOSAL  CANDIDATES 


A.  O.  RINGSRUD,  Elk  Point,  S.  B.  - - - 

MRS.  JOHN  L.  PYLE,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - 

CHAS.  BORESON,  Mitchell,  S.  D.  - - - 

ELMER  W.  ANDERSON,  Willow  Lakes,  S.  D. 
J.  B.  GOFF,  Philip,  S.  D.  ------ 

WILLIS  C.  COOK,  Sioux  Falls,  S.  D.  - - 

W.  H.  KING,  Mitchell,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

LEONARD  A.  WOOD,  Chicago,  111.  - - - 

PETER  NORBECK,  Redfield,  S.  D.  - - - 

C.  A.  CHRISTOPHERSON,  Sioux  Falls,  S.  D. 
ROYAL  C.  JOHNSON,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - 

WILLIAM  WHLLIAMSON,  Oacoma,  S.  D.  - 
W.  II.  McMASTER,  Yankton,  S.  D.  - - - 

CARL  GUNDERSON,  Mitchell,  S.  D.  - - - 

C.  A.  BURKHART,  Dixon,  S.  D.  - - - - 

BYRON  S.  PAYNE,  Pierre,  S.  D.  - - - - 

JAY  REEVES,  Groton,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

40  W.  S.  O’BRIEN,  Pierre,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

N.  E.  KNIGHT,  Thomas,  S.  D.  - - - - 

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5 FRED  L.  SHAW,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - - 

^ J.  W.  RAISH,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - - - 

DAWES  E.  BRISBINE,  Faith,  S.  D.  - - - 

C.  A.  KELLEY,  Huron,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

CHAS.  A.  HOWARD,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - 

S.  X,  WAY,  Watertown,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

HELEN  S.  PEABODY,  Sioux  Palls,  S.  D.  - 
ALLEN  R.  FELLOWS,  Sioux  Palls,  S.  D.  - 
JOHN  SUTHERLAND,  Pierre,  S.  D.  - - - 

CHAMBERS  KELLAR,  Lead,  S.  D.  - ' - - 

C.  N.  LEEDOM,  Kadoka,  S.  D.  - - - - 

D.  F.  MYERS,  Salem,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

C.  E.  COYNE,  Ft.  Pierre.  S.  D.  - - - - 


Presidential  Elector 
Presidential  Elector 
Presidential  Elector 
Presidential  Elector 
Presidential  Elector 
National  Committeeman 
State  Chairman 
President  of  the  United  States 
United  States  Senator 
Congressman,  1st  Dist. 

Congressman,  2nd  Dist. 

Congressman,  3rd  Dist. 

Governor 
Lieut.  Governor 
Secretary  of  State 
Attorney  General 
State  Auditor 
State  Treasurer 

Commissioner  of  School  and  Public 
Lands 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
Ry.  Commissioner,  2nd  District 
Ry  Commissioner,  3rd  District 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 
Delegate,  National  Convention 


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CHAS.  A.  ALSETH,  Lake  Preston,  S.  D. 
J.  F.  SARGENT,  Gettysburg,  S.  D.  - - 

F.  E.  GUHIN,  Aberdeen,  S.  D.  - - - 

A.  C.  ROBERTS,  Pierpont,  S.  D.  - - - 

FRED  .LITZ,  Emery,  S.  D.  - - - - - 

T.  C.  BURNS,  Mitchell,  S.  D.  - - - - 

F.  B.  STILES,  Watertown,  S.  D.  - - - 

O.  S.  THOMPSON,  Baltic,  S.  D.  - - - 

W.  F.  BRUELL,  Redfield,  S.  D.  - - - 

WILLIAM  G.  BUELL,  Rapid  City,  S.  D.  - 


NOTE:  Many  of  the  names  above  given  will  not  appear  upon  the  Primary 

lot,  due  to  the  fact  that  no  opposition  exists  within  the  party,  but  those  candidal 
automatically  become  nominees  of  the  party  by  operation  of  the  present  Primary  LJ 

Where  vacancies  occur  in  the  party  proposal  for  nomination,  or  where  vaca|j 
may  occur  up  to  thirty  days  before  the  Primary,  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Propc 
meeting  may  appoint  someone  to  fill  the  vacancy. 


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